Journal of Applied Sciences1812-56541812-5662Asian Network for Scientific Information10.3923/jas.2014.3479.3485Abdulrahman KadhimAbdulkareem AbdulrazzaqMohammed Wahhab 1220141424In Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), sensor nodes perform sensing,
processing and relaying operations that consume the energy of a sensor node.
WSN routing protocols are concerned with forwarding data from the source to
destination with less energy consumption to extend the network lifetime. Among
the different WSNs routing protocols, the advantages of network structure classes
(flat-based, hierarchical-based and location-based) routing protocols are considered
here to introduce routing protocols that are suitable for different environments.
Two clustering based routing protocols; Fixed-environment Location-based Clustering
Routing Protocol (FLCRP) and a Mixed-environment Location-based Clustering Routing
Protocol (MLCRP) are introduced in this study. The performance of the proposed
protocols is evaluated and compared with Low Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy
(LEACH) and Low Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy-Centralized (LEACH-C) protocols
using NS2-Software with different scenarios. The results have shown that the
proposed systems are better than LEACH and LEACH-C for small networks in terms
of throughput, packet delivery ratio, delay, energy consumption. On the other
hand and for large networks, LEACH and LEACH-C are better in terms of jitter
and energy consumption.]]>Matin, M.A.,2012Eksim, A.,2012Biradar, R.V., V.C. Patil, S.R. Sawant and R.R. Mudholkar,20094704711Heinzelman, W.R., A. Chandrakasan and H. Balakrishnan,20002000pp: 110Manjeshwar, A. and D.P. Agrawal,20012001pp: 3018930189Manjeshwar, A. and D.P. Agrawal,20022002pp: 195202Heinzelman, W.B., A.P. Chandrakasan and H. Balakrishnan,20021660670Younis, O. and S. Fahmy,20043366379Ding, P., J. Holliday and A. Celik,20052005pp: 322339Zytoune, O. and D. Aboutajdine,2014216Rathi, N., J. Saraswat and P. Bhattacharya,201233958Xu, Y., J. Heidemann and D. Estrin,20012001pp: 7084Intanagonwiwat, C., R. Govindan and D. Estrin,20002000pp: 5667