PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF ENERGY EFFICIENT CLUSTERING PROTOCOL FOR CLUSTER HEAD SELECTION IN WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK

Wireless sensor network are emerging in various fields like environmental monitoring, mining, surveillance system, medical monitoring. LEACH protocol is one of the predominantly used clustering routing protocols in wireless sensor networks. In Leach each node has equal chance to become a cluster head which make the energy dissipated of each node be moderately balanced. We have pioneered an improved algorithm named as Novel Leach based on Leach protocol. The proposed algorithm shows the significant improvement in network lifetime .Comparison of proposed algorithm is done with basic leach in terms of network life time, cluster head selection, energy consumption, and data transmission to base station. The simulation results shows that proposed algorithm can reduce network energy consumption and prolong network life commendably. Simulation of our protocol is done with Matlab.