An Improved LEACH-MF Protocol to Prolong Lifetime of Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

Wireless sensor network (WSN) communication has gathered a lot of attention of research scholars due to its various features such as high wireless data transmission. A large number of techniques have been developed till now in order to achieve an energy efficient network. The clustering and cluster head selection is the major and difficult task to perform in a network. LEACH serves as a basic for rest of the energy efficient clustering protocols. This study considers the LEACH-Mobile Fuzzy (LEACH-MF) as base for developing the proposed work. Fuzzy Inference System (FIS) with LEACH along with threshold based data transmission concept is developed in this work. The major objective of this work is to utilize the allotted energy to sensor nodes in an effective way. The proposed model is parted in two forms i.e. Modified Parameter-LEACH-MF (MP-LEACH-MF) and Limited Communication-LEACH-MF (LC-LEACH-MF). LC-LEACH-MF is a reactive protocol whereas the former one is periodic. In order to assure the performance efficiency of the proposed work, the parameters such as Packet Delivery Ratio (PDR), Last Node Dead (LND), Half Node Dead (HND), First Node Dead (FND), Energy Consumption of the network are evaluated and along with this a comparison analysis has been done with traditional LEACH, LEACH–Mobile (LEACH-M), LEACH-MF. After analyzing the obtained results it is concluded that the LC-LEACH-MF outnumbers the rest of the traditional energy efficient clustering techniques.