An Improvement on Leach Protocol for Wireless Sensor Network

Abstract

This paper clarifies the implementation of the leach protocol in wireless sensor networks (WSN) and developing an enhanced approach to select the cluster head. The performance of the suggested wireless sensor network is evaluated by implementing and running a leach protocol. NS 2.35 as a simulator is used in this evaluation to evaluate 100 deployed sensors on a certain area of 100 m <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">∧</sup> 2. The evaluation is based on the packet sent, packet receives, start time, stop time, throughput, Packet Delivery Ratio, delay, and jitter as performance metrics. The network performance is improved with less energy consumed in transmission and processing of data with leach protocol