Energy Efficient Clustering Protocols for WSN: Performance Analysis of FL-EE-NC with LEACH, K Means-LEACH, LEACH-FL and FL-EE/D using NS-2

Wireless Sensor Networks playing an important role in applications where human interaction is difficult. WSN is extensively used in real-time applications like surveillance systems, environmental monitoring systems, disaster management and health monitoring, etc. Since sensor nodes are deployed in isolated areas, recharging or replacing node batteries is difficult. So for the better performance of the network, it's important to improve network lifetime by increasing sensor nodes' energy efficiency. Data aggregation methods and energy-efficient routing algorithms have an important role in WSN to tackle the problem with network lifetime. Hierarchical energy-efficient routing protocols are trending in the WSN research field, which helps to improve overall network lifetime by increasing the lifetime of sensor nodes by minimizing the energy consumption of each node in the network. In this paper, compared and investigated the performance of the Fuzzy Logic-Network Coding-Energy Efficient (FL-NC-EE) routing protocol with the other energy-efficient clustering protocols like LEACH, LEACH-FL, K Means-LEACH and FL-EE/D using NS2. The result shows that the FL-NC-EE protocol outperforms in terms of energy efficiency and network lifetime compared to the other protocols discussed in this paper.