LEACH-KANG: A new routing protocol for WSN based on leach protocol and Kangaroo method

We offer in the present paper a novel routing protocol for wireless sensor networks by using the hybrid between leach protocol and a heuristic method to reduce sensor energy consumption. We propose Kangaroo Method-based (KM-based) adaptive routing protocol uses the optimal path to transmit data from cluster head nodes to base station to achieve good performance in terms of lifetime of network in WSN. The proposed KM-based approach is based on LEACH, called LEACH-KANG. The simulation results have clearly shown that our proposed protocol excels regarding energy consumption in wireless sensor networks, and resulting in an extension of lifetime for the network. We simulated the proposed technique compared with LEACH algorithm using MATLAB environment.