Energy Efficient System for Wireless Sensor Networks using Modified RECHS Protocol

The area of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is one of the emerging and fast growing fields in the scientific world. This has brought about developing low cost, low-power and multi-function sensor nodes. Prolonged network lifetime, scalability, node mobility and load balancing are important requirements for many WSN applications. Clustering the sensor nodes is an effective technique to achieve these goals. Cluster-based routing protocol is currently a hot research in wireless sensor network. In this paper, we have added additional criteria for the selection of cluster heads in a Redundant and Energy-efficient Cluster head Selection Protocol(RECHS) and compared results with Energy Aware Low Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy (EA-LEACH) protocol. This modified RECHS significantly increases the lifetime, reliability of the network. Simulation results show that comparison between two methods (Modified RECHS and EA- LEACH) for LEACH protocol on the basis of network lifetime (stability period), number of cluster heads are present per round, number of alive node are present per round and throughput of data transfer in the network. DOI: 10.17762/ijritcc2321-8169.15016