R-EDEEC: Reserved-Enhanced Distributed Energy Efficient Clustering Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

In the recent years a widespread increase in application of Wireless sensor networks (WSN) has been seen, Consequently many Protocols have been developed to enhance the performance of WSN. The earliest approach was a homogeneous clustering based homogenous protocol Low energy adaptive clustering hierarchical (LEACH). But with variety of increasing applications many protocols with variations and improvements have been developed. In this paper we have studied the heterogeneous protocol, DEEC, its enhanced Version Enhanced (EDEEC) and suggested an improvement. This paper proposes a new routing protocol “Reserved Enhanced distributed energy efficient clustering (R-EDEEC) routing protocol for WSN”. In this protocol, the concept of ‘Reserved’ node is introduced to improve the efficiency by increasing the lifetime and stability of the network .The proposed approach successfully shows better performance in comparison to LEACH and DEEC.