ICH-LEACH: An enhanced LEACH protocol for wireless sensor network
Mohamed Taj Bennani, M. Aït Kbir · 2016
In wireless sensor Networks, sending data consumes energy which affects the lifetime of the network. Since Routing protocol plays an important role in this process, designing a routing protocol must take into a count energy consumption in order to increase the lifetime of the network. In this paper, we propose an improved multipath leach protocol which uses at most one intermediate cluster head. The aim of our protocol is to extend the lifetime of the network and send more data compared to the original protocol. We used Castalia simulator to compare LEACH protocol and ICH-LEACH protocol by creating an application in the application layer. This application generates a packet every period of time, then sends it to the lower layer. The simulation proves that our protocol extends the network's lifetime by 80% and increases the number of sent packets by 80%.