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Performance Evaluation of Load-Balanced Clustering of Wireless Sensor Networks Gaurav Gupta and Mohamed Younis Dept. of Computer Science and Elec. Eng. University of Maryland Baltimore County Baltimore, MD 21250 {gagupta1, younis}@ Abstract- Wireless sensor networks have received increasing a base station or Command node, either periodically or based attention in the recent few years. In many military and civil on events. The command node can be statically located in the applications of sensor networks, sensors are constrained in on- vicinity of the sensors or it can be mobile so that it can move board energy supply and are left unattended. Energy, size and around the sensors and collect data. In either case, the cost constraints of such sensors limit their communication command node cannot be reached efficiently by all sensors in range. Therefore, they require multi-hop wireless connectivity the system. To avoid long haul communication with the to forward data on their behalf to a remote command site. In command node some high-energy nodes called ìGatewaysî this paper we investigate the performance of an algorithm to are typically deployed in the network. These Gateways, group network these sensors in to well define clusters with less- sensors to form distinct clusters in the system and manage the energy-constrained gateway nodes acting as clusterheads,