PERFORMANCE COMPARISON OF EAMMH AND LEACH ROUTING PROTOCOLS IN WSN

Abstract

One of the main design issues for a sensor network is conservation of the energy available in each sensor node. Increasing network lifetime is important in wireless sensor networks. Many routing algorithms have been developed in this regard. Out of all these, clustering algorithms have gained a lot of importance in increasing the network lifetime there by the efficiency of the nodes in it. Clustering provides an effective way for prolonging the lifetime of awireless sensor network. This paper elaborately compares two renowned routing protocols namely, LEACH and EAMMH for several general scenarios, and brief analysis of the simulation results against known metrics with energy and network lifetime being major among them. In this paper will the results and observations made from the analyses of results about these protocols are presented. Keywords: Energy-Aware Multi-hop Multi-path Hierarchical (EAMMH), Low-energy adaptive clustering hierarchy (LEACH), wireless sensor network (WSN).