LMEEC: Layered Multi-Hop Energy Efficient Cluster-based Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

TL;DR

This paper introduces LMEEC, a cluster-based routing protocol designed to reduce energy consumption and extend the lifetime of wireless sensor networks through optimized cluster-head selection.

Contribution

LMEEC presents a novel layered multi-hop routing protocol that improves energy efficiency over existing protocols like LEACH in wireless sensor networks.

Findings

LMEEC reduces energy consumption compared to LEACH.

LMEEC prolongs network lifetime.

Simulation results confirm protocol effectiveness.

Abstract

In this paper, we propose LMEEC, a cluster-based routing protocol with low energy consumption for wireless sensor networks. Our protocol is based on a strategy which aims to provide a more reasonable exploitation of the selected nodes (cluster-heads) energy. Simulation results show the effectiveness of LMEEC in decreasing the energy consumption, and in prolonging the network lifetime, compared to LEACH.