ABSTRACT
The continuous development and progress of wireless networks’ and sensor networks’ innovation have gradually become an attractive technology to encourage individual’s lives. Due to the extensive utilization of sensor lifetime on real time and effective data has become a basic concern. The lifetime of a network is limited to the energy of nodes as a key factor for designing a network’s lifetime. Clustering is an effective method of topology control for reducing energy consumed by the sensor nodes to increase the network lifetime. This paper proposes multi-hop zonal-based hybrid routing protocol for heterogeneous nodes. The given area is divided into zones and randomly deploying two nodes, one as normal and the one as an advance node. The advance node send data through clustering and Normal nodes transfer information directly to base station. The cluster head elections are premise on residual energy and distance factor of cluster nodes using fuzzy logic concept. The proposed protocol is implemented and contrasted with SEP protocol. The simulation results show the that proposed work decreases consumption of energy. The proposed protocol prolongs network lifetime and stability of network.
