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To defeat this routing quandary, an energy-efficient routing protocol based on grid cells (EEGT) is proposed in this study to improve the lifespan of WSN-based IoT applications. In EEGT, the whole network region is separated into virtual grid cells (clusters) at which the number of sensor nodes is balanced among cells. Then, a cluster head node (CHN) is chosen according to the residual energy and the distance between the sink and nodes in each cell. Moreover, to determine the paths for data delivery inside the cell with small energy utilization, the Kruskal algorithm is applied to connect nodes in each cell and their CHN into a minimum spanning tree (MST). Further, the ant colony algorithm is also used to find the paths of transmitting data packets from CHNs to the sink (outside cell) to reduce energy utilization. The simulation results show that the performance of EEGT is better than the three existing protocols, which are LEACH-C (low energy adaptive clustering hierarchy), PEGASIS (power-efficient gathering in sensor information systems), and PEGCP (maximizing WSN life using power-efficient grid-chain routing protocol) in terms of improved energy efficiency and extended the lifespan of the network.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/computers12050103","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,5,12]],"date-time":"2023-05-12T09:26:13Z","timestamp":1683883573000},"page":"103","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":20,"title":["EEGT: Energy Efficient Grid-Based Routing Protocol in Wireless Sensor Networks for IoT Applications"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9538-1181","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Nguyen","family":"Duy Tan","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Information Technology, Hung Yen University of Technology and Education, Hung Yen 160000, Vietnam"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0008-6807-3034","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Duy-Ngoc","family":"Nguyen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Information Technology, Hung Yen University of Technology and Education, Hung Yen 160000, Vietnam"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2360-6131","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Hong-Nhat","family":"Hoang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science and Engineering, Pusan National University, Busan 609735, Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8366-9396","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Thi-Thu-Huong","family":"Le","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Information Technology, Hung Yen University of Technology and Education, Hung Yen 160000, Vietnam"},{"name":"Blockchain Platform Technology, Pusan National University, Busan 609735, Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,5,12]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"65","DOI":"10.1049\/iet-wss.2016.0049","article-title":"Models for integrating wireless sensor networks into the Internet of Things","volume":"7","author":"Abidoye","year":"2017","journal-title":"IET Wirel. 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