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Sensors 2012, 12, 11113-11153; doi:10.3390/s120811113 OPEN ACCESS sensors ISSN 1424-8220 /journal/sensors Review A Survey on Clustering Routing Protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks Xuxun Liu School of Electronic and Information Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510641, China; E-Mail: liuxuxun@; Tel./Fax: +86-20-8711-2490 Received: 2 May 2012; in revised form: 26 July 2012 / Accepted: 6 August 2012 / Published: 9 August 2012 Abstract: The past few years have witnessed increased interest in the potential use of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) in a wide range of applications and it has become a hot research area. Based on network structure, routing protocols in WSNs can be divided into two categories: flat routing and hierarchical or clustering routing. Owing to a variety of advantages, clustering is becoming an active branch of routing technology in WSNs. In this paper, we present a comprehensive and fine grained survey on clustering routing protocols proposed in the literature for WSNs. We outline the advantages and objectives of clustering for WSNs, and develop a novel taxonomy of WSN clustering routing methods based on complete and detailed clustering attributes. In particular, we systematically analyze a few prominent WSN clustering routing protocols and compare these different approaches according to our taxonomy and several significant metrics. Finally, we summarize and conclude the paper w