Modified Leach Protocol for Wireless Sensor Network

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is an emerging area belonging to the wireless technologies that has recently developed interest among the industry and academic researchers and is expected to hold the market in the recent future. In WSN, transferring the data packets with efficient energy during tran...

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Published in:International journal of computer applications 2013-01, Vol.62 (3), p.1-5
Main Authors: Sabarish, B A, Lavanya, R
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Clusters
Computer simulation
Failure
Longevity
Mathematical models
Networks
Packet transmission
Sensors
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Summary:Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is an emerging area belonging to the wireless technologies that has recently developed interest among the industry and academic researchers and is expected to hold the market in the recent future. In WSN, transferring the data packets with efficient energy during transmission takes the most crucial role in this area, which on failure will result in problems like Single point failure, packet loss and Hot Spot Problem. It may lead to the reduction of network longevity. Grouping the sensor nodes into Clusters will be a better solution for the problem of efficient transmission of data packet with least energy to increase the network longevity. LEACH is the self-organized, adaptive clustering Protocol, which is the most suited algorithm to achieve the network scalability. This paper proposes a modified version of the LEACH protocol, in which the Cluster formation and the Data routing are totally Energy-based. Thus the proposed system first identifies the Cluster Heads and then forms the clusters based on the distance measure. Also the data transmission happens through the most energy-efficient path. The simulation analysis of the LEACH over the existing system shows the improvement in performance attained through the proposed LEACH protocol.
ISSN:0975-8887
0975-8887
DOI:10.5120/10057-4648