A clustering based hybrid routing protocol for enhancing network lifetime of Wireless Sensor Network

Abstract

The fastest growing technology that would dominate the future world of wireless communication is Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). The critical issue in WSNs is energy. In order to improve the lifetime of the network, energy should be used in an efficient manner. Many routing protocols has been developed to improve energy efficiency of wireless sensor networks. The routing protocol may be conventional type or hybrid type. The hybrid type integrates the advantages of two different protocols. In this paper, a new hybrid routing protocol called Quadrant Based Low Energy Adaptive clustering Hierarchy (QB-LEACH) is developed where lifetime improvement is vital. This protocol combines the Quadrant based Directional Routing(Q-DIR), an Ad-hoc routing algorithm and Low Energy Adaptive clustering Hierarchy (LEACH), a routing algorithm for WSNs. The performance nature of the protocol is evaluated and observed that this protocol vanquish the other in terms of energy conservation and network period.