An analytical approach for quadrant based leach: An energy efficient routing protocol for WSNs

Abstract

Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is an emerging network technology that provides reputable monitoring of the various environmental circumstances. One among the paramount constrains in the WSN is it's scrimp energy resource. Many experimental works in WSNs are focussed towards achieving energy efficacy. Though there are various assortments in WSN that would appealingly achieve energy efficient operation the section of routing schemes proves to be a demanding field of research. There are several denominations of routing protocols available and the class of hybrid routing protocols are the ones that are the combos of two different genres of routing protocol. Though Low Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy (LEACH) proves to be an outwitting routing scheme there are inherent limitations due to the power hungry overhead processing and the more number of participating nodes. This paper focuses towards the development of a new genre of hybrid routing protocol that collides the LEACH (Hierarchical routing protocol class of WSN) and the Quadrant based Directional Routing (Q-DIR) (Ad-hoc Routing scheme). This new scheme outdoes the shortcomings of the LEACH and assures energy efficient operation with extends the network lifetime. In addition to this the paper also works on the energy parameters concordant to the protocol operation.