Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Year: 2017
Volume: 12
Issue: 23
Page No. 7201 - 7207

FEELP: Fuzzy-Based Energy-Efficient LEACH Protocol in Wireless Sensor Networks

Authors : A. Krishnakumar and V. Anuratha

Abstract: Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) brings a great solution for most of the areas where the infrastructure is not accessible. This motivates the improvement on WSNs and increases the necessity of such networks. The most annoying factor of WSN is that mostly the network is placed in some hostile area and it cannot be able to replace the battery of the nodes. Such problems introduce the need of energy-efficient protocol to extend the lifetime of the network. The group of nodes are formed as clusters and controlled by Cluster Head (CH). The election of CH is a tedious process which gives a lifetime opportunity to the entire network. The Low Energy Adaptive Cluster Hierarchy (LEACH) protocol follows the election using the threshold function. In this model, the threshold function of LEACH is modified to elect a better and high performing CH to extent the network lifetime using residual energy, distance to Base Station (BS) and threshold energy of a node. The node which gets the higher value among the other member nodes is elected as CH. This model also introduces a novel idea to elect Super CH (SCH) among the elected CH which will receive the information from other CH’s and forwards it BS. The aggregation will also be done at SCH. The Fuzzy Logic (FL) is been introduced in this approach to elect SCH. The proposed scheme is verified with the latest existing models. The simulation results show that the proposed model performs better than the existing models in terms of average energy, average distance to BS and other empirical metrics.

How to cite this article:

A. Krishnakumar and V. Anuratha, 2017. FEELP: Fuzzy-Based Energy-Efficient LEACH Protocol in Wireless Sensor Networks. Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 12: 7201-7207.

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