Analyzing Energy-efficiency and Route-selection of Multi-level Hierarchal Routing Protocols in WSNs

TL;DR

This paper compares six routing protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks to evaluate their energy efficiency and route selection strategies, aiming to guide the design of more robust and efficient protocols for various applications.

Contribution

It provides a comparative analysis of different hierarchical routing protocols using MATLAB simulations to identify their suitability for diverse WSN scenarios.

Findings

Multi-level hierarchical LEACH shows improved energy efficiency.

Routing protocols vary in performance based on application scenarios.

Simulation results guide protocol selection for specific WSN needs.

Abstract

The advent and development in the field of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) in recent years has seen the growth of extremely small and low-cost sensors that possess sensing, signal processing and wireless communication capabilities. These sensors can be expended at a much lower cost and are capable of detecting conditions such as temperature, sound, security or any other system. A good protocol design should be able to scale well both in energy heterogeneous and homogeneous environment, meet the demands of different application scenarios and guarantee reliability. On this basis, we have compared six different protocols of different scenarios which are presenting their own schemes of energy minimizing, clustering and route selection in order to have more effective communication. This research is motivated to have an insight that which of the under consideration protocols suit well in which application and can be a guide-line for the design of a more robust and efficient protocol. MATLAB simulations are performed to analyze and compare the performance of LEACH, multi-level hierarchal LEACH and multihop LEACH.