Abstract
The performance of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) faces a number of challenges. Of these challenges, energy consumption is considered a hot research area. Most WSN energy is used in transmitting the data from the sensor nodes either among each other or to a Base Station (BS). For this reason, many routing protocols have been developed to facilitate the data dissemination in the WSNs. One of these protocols, Low Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy (LEACH) has provided a distinctive hierarchical approach that efficiently forwards the nodes data to the BS, but it suffers from increased energy consumption and a significant decline in the network performance in the case of large-scale networks. This paper aims to present a new approach for splitting the whole sensor network into several levels. Thus, every node will be acting accordingly on its position and status. Further, two techniques, a static one and a dynamic one, have been developed to route the data between the levels. The simulation results demonstrated that the proposed techniques prolong the lifespan, improve the stability and raise the throughput of the network compared with the LEACH, the Improved MHT-LEACH (IMHT-LEACH), and the Enhancing DMHT-LEACH (EDMHT-LEACH) protocols.
Highlights
Nowadays, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are attracting the considerable attention of many researchers thanks to their participation in a variety of practical applications [1,2,3]
We evaluate the performance of the two techniques that we have proposed in this paper
We suppose that a fixed number of stationary sensor nodes are randomly scattered on three deployment areas that are different in terms of sizes and distances to the Base Station (BS); The BS is located out of the sensors deployment area (Figure 8)
Summary
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are attracting the considerable attention of many researchers thanks to their participation in a variety of practical applications [1,2,3]. WSNs have a number of characteristics that make them distinctive from other conventional networks. The energy sources, the computational capabilities, and the data storages are limited [4,5]. The characteristics of WSNs must be taken into account during their use. Many routing protocols have been introduced to convey the collected data of WSN to a Base Station (BS), which in turn, forwards it to the end-user [6,7]. In this context, a group of these protocols adopted hierarchical mechanisms for delivering the sensor data to the BS.
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