Energy Balancing LEACH for Wireless Sensor Networks
Jong-Won Choe, Jun Xu · International Journal of Intelligent Information Processing · 2012
Abstract This paper suggests an algorithm which increases the energy efficiency based on LEACH (Low Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy)[1] for sensor network routing. Due to the random cluster head election process, LEACH does not guarantee the optimization for the number and position of cluster heads. Also it results in inefficiency in energy consumption. This paper suggests improved cluster head election methods consisting of various phases that help to achieve more even distribution among the cluster heads. Balancing the load among the cluster heads, our proposed algorithm can increase the sensor network lifetime. From JAVA simulations, we show that our method outperforms the existing LEACH protocol, in terms of the number of alive nodes and the average energy consumption.