Q-LEACH: A New Routing Protocol for WSNs

TL;DR

Q-LEACH is a new routing protocol for homogeneous wireless sensor networks that significantly improves network lifetime, stability, and throughput by optimizing energy utilization through clustering.

Contribution

The paper introduces Q-LEACH, a novel clustering-based routing protocol that enhances the stability period and overall performance of WSNs.

Findings

Increased network lifetime and stability period.

Significant improvement in throughput.

Effective energy management in homogeneous WSNs.

Abstract

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) with their dynamic applications gained a tremendous attention of researchers. Constant monitoring of critical situations attracted researchers to utilize WSNs at vast platforms. The main focus in WSNs is to enhance network life-time as much as one could, for efficient and optimal utilization of resources. Different approaches based upon clustering are proposed for optimum functionality. Network life-time is always related with energy of sensor nodes deployed at remote areas for constant and fault tolerant monitoring. In this work, we propose Quadrature-LEACH (Q-LEACH) for homogenous networks which enhances stability period, network life-time and throughput quiet significantly.