Ultraviolet Index-based Solar Aware Low Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy Protocol

Abstract

Vitality reaping assumes an essential job in expanding the lifetime of the remote sensor organization. Different conventions are enveloped with reaping vitality to build the vitality proficiency of the system. Low Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchical (LEACH) protocol is one of the conventions that has been utilized with the vitality reaping reason. The purpose of this study is to utilize real-time information from solar energy in the LEACH algorithm to improve the framework execution. We considered an alternative way of utilizing real-time solar power from the UV-index data available on the weather forecasting site. The UV-index is converted to solar power by considering the relation between the UV-index and solar power. Solar power is then utilized to power some of the sensor nodes in the network and they get maximum chance to become a cluster head. The performance parameters like network stability, network reliability, and network lifetime are considered and compared with LEACH and solar aware LEACH protocol. There is an improvement in the lifetime, stability, and reliability of UV index-based solar aware LEACH protocol. The work presented shall be extended for larger networks and with incorporation of actual implementation of sun oriented hubs powered by harvesting vitality.