Hybridizing PEGASIS with LEACH-1R protocols in wireless sensor networks

Abstract

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) consist of small nodes with sensing, computation, and wireless communications capabilities. Routing is one of the new key technology which has become a hot research nowadays since the applications of WSNs are growing everywhere. Hierarchical routing in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is a very important topic that has been attracting the research community in the last decade. In our work, we proposed a set of hierarchical hybrid protocols between clustering-based LEACH-1R protocol and chain-based PEGASIS protocol, where we aim to enhance the lifetime of the network.