NEECP: Novel energy-efficient clustering protocol for prolonging lifetime of WSNs

In this paper, a novel energy-efficient clustering protocol (NEECP) for increasing the network lifetime in wireless sensor networks is proposed. This technique selects the cluster heads in an effective way with an adjustable sensing range and performs data aggregation using chaining approach. It also avoids transmission of redundant data by using a redundancy check function for improving the network lifetime. It is implemented by considering the data with aggregation and without aggregation. The NEECP without aggregation increases the network lifetime by 59.76 and 7.17% as compared with the hybrid energy-efficient distributed (HEED) and intra-balanced low-energy adaptive clustering hierarchy (IBLEACH), respectively. It increases the network lifetime by 122.92 and 49.53% over the HEED and IBLEACH, respectively, while considering data aggregation.