Sensor networks have become an emerging new tool for habitat monitoring in nature preserves, it monitors and grouping events in unhealthy environments, it does the work of buildings surveillance, monitoring the enemy activities in a fight field environment. Sensor nodes have less storage capacity, limited energy resources and they are energy constrain. To designing the efficient routing protocol is difficult in order to prolong the lifetime of the sensor nodes. Sensor networks are mainly designed for controlling and reporting events though sensor nodes are application dependent, designing a single routing protocol cannot be effective for sensor networks for all applications. In this paper, we first analyze the requirements, closeness and distinguish between sensors networks and MANETs (Mobile Ad hoc Networks). Cluster formation reduces the nodes involved in transmission &conserves the energy. The cluster based protocols are energy efficient & prolong the network lifetime when compared to other protocols.
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Wireless Sensor Networks, Cluster, Energy Efficient, Routing Protocols.