A modified LEACH protocol for wireless sensor networks
Zhong Liu, Zhikun Liu, Lin Wen · 2011
In order to reduce the energy consumption of nodes and prolong the lifetime of wireless sensor networks (WSN), a clustering protocol based on Chaos-PSO is proposed. The protocol improves the cluster-head selection mechanism, it considers the residual energy of nodes, distance to sink node and range of clusters. It optimizes cluster-head selection by Chaos-PSO. Then the other nodes decide whether join the cluster or not by comparing the signal strength of advertisement message with a predefined threshold, and the range of cluster is restricted. The simulation results show that, compared with LEACH, the new protocol can efficiently save energy and prolong the lifetime of WSN.