ANALYSIS OF LEACH ROUTING PROTOCOL

Abstract

A Wireless sensor network consists of hundreds and thousands of tiny devices that are capable of communicating
with each other with limited power. These Wireless sensors are deployed in our own environment to sense various
environmental effects. One of the most important issues in Wireless sensor network is the inherent limited battery power of
the network sensor nodes. The life time of WSN is very much dependent on the life of each sensor node. Hierarchical
protocols are the best known protocols to minimize the energy consumption. LEACH is one of the fundamental protocol in
the clustering technique that can be used for minimizing the energy consumed in collecting and disseminating the data. This
paper highlights basics knowledge about LEACH.