A NOVEL ROUTING PROTOCOL WITH LIFETIME MAXIMIZING CLUSTERING ALGORITHM FOR WSN

Wireless Sensor Network consists of
tiny, battery enabled sensor nodes. In the recent
years, the most important problem in WSN is to
improve the life time of Network. Network life
time depends on the residual energy of the sensor
nodes. Most of the energy in the sensor node is
used for data transmission. So, we should employ
the routing protocols which can consume the
energy of nodes efficiently. Already, many
energy efficient routing protocols have been
suggested by the researchers, among which
Hierarchical Protocols achieve the better
performance. In this paper, a novel routing
protocol has been proposed which introduces
new clustering algorithm and constructs the
routing tree for efficient data transmission. The
objective of this algorithm is to consume less
energy, distributing energy consumption equally
among all nodes and finally, extends the network
lifetime. The simulation results show that this
protocol consumes the energy of the nodes
efficiently and improves the life time of the
network. For a set of 100 nodes, the proposed
algorithm gives 31% better performance than
LEACH, 18% better performance than LEACHC and 15 % better performance than TL-LEACH
in terms of network life time