A Novel Cluster Head Selection Method for Energy Efficient Wireless Sensor Network

In the development of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) applications, organizing sensor nodes into a communication network and route the sensed data from sensor nodes to a remote sink is a challenging task. Energy efficient and reliable routing of data from the source to destination with minimal power consumption remains as a core research problem. So, in WSN we need an efficient protocol to route any transmitted data with extended lifetime of network. In this paper, we propose a novel clustering algorithm, Front-Leading Energy Efficient Cluster Heads (FLEECH), in which the whole network is partitioned into regions with diminishing sizes. In each region, we form multiple clusters. The selection of the Cluster Head (CH) is based on residual energy and distance of each node to the sink as its parameter. Simulation results show that our proposed model FLEECH outperforms Low Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy (LEACH) with respect to energy consumption and extension of network life time.