Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
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This paper talk about the communication protocol named LEACH. The protocol focuses on reducing the power consumption of wireless sensor networks, which can have significant impact on the overall energy dissipation of these networks. LEACH uses localized coordination to enable scalability and robustness for dynamic networks, and incorporate data fusion into the routing protocol to reduce the amount of information that must be transmitted to the base station. Simulations show that LEACH can achieve as much as a factor of 8 reductions in energy dissipation compared with conventional routing protocols. In addition, LEACH is able to distribute energy dissipation evenly throughout the sensors, doubling the useful system lifetime for the networks we simulated. We extend LEACH's stochastic cluster head selection algorithm by a deterministic component. Depending on the network configuration an increase of network lifetime by about 30 % can be accomplished.