A new Energy Aware Cluster Based Multi-hop Energy Efficient routing protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

The area of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is an invented automation which is used in recent years to perform multiple tasks in various domains intelligently. The unbalanced energy dissipation of Sensor Nodes results in the significant reduction of network lifetime which is the main problem in WSNs. Cluster based routing plays an inherent role in overcoming the energy dissipation problem and enhancing their network lifetime. In this paper, a new Energy Aware Cluster Based Multi-hop (EACBM) routing protocol for heterogeneous networks has been proposed which uses both the concept of clustering and multi-hop communication to reduce the energy consumption of SNs. Also Sub-clustering concept is used for those SNs which are not included in any cluster or which are out of the reach of CH. This protocol is implemented and compared with the existing routing protocols (SEP, LEACH, CEEC and LEFCA) in MATLAB and found that it outperforms in terms of stability, network lifetime and gives the better solution for energy efficiency in hierarchical heterogeneous WSNs.