A Hybrid Unequal Clustering Based on Density with Energy Conservation in Wireless Nodes
, Seyed Mostafa Bozorgi 2, Ayda Valinezhad Orang 3, Ali Asghar Rahmani Hosseinabadi 4, Arun Kumar Sangaiah 5 and Mu-Yen Chen 6Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
This is an interesting paper which shows authors' efforts and contribution. However, authors still needs to do some work to improve this paper.
Authors should clearly narrate their contributions in the introduction so that readers will have better understanding of what has been done in this paper.
The second part is to explain in what areas the improvement is made.
The language of this paper still needs polishing. I have found several mistakes during reading it.
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Reviewer 2 Report
The authors show enough effort in making a novel scientific contribution. However, the following can be done to improve the quality of the manuscript:
1) The contributions need to be clearly highlighted in the introduction preferably in bulleted format.
2) In line 252, the authors mention that the work is an improvement in the HUCL protocol. They need to highlight in what areas exactly the improvement is made. Place a mention of this in the abstract as well.
3) Table 2. needs to be made more clear. eg. what are those BS values? What are the units for the network space area? A summary in a line or two of the scenarios has to be mentioned as part of the concluding remarks on the findings.
4) Figs. 12 and 13 showing load balancing has no units for the residual node energies.
5) General check for grammar and spellings may be done. eg. line 63 'these networks'
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