Effect of p-value on LEACH Protocol Performance for Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

Today's technology has been able to provide a monitoring system for arable land, the sensors are arranged in such a way to report field conditions so that predictions can be made for better environmental conditions. The larger the cultivated area, the number of sensors needed also increases, with the increase in the number of sensors, data processing and computing, problems arise in the energy consumption of network performance. The use of sensors and the Internet of Things (IoT) is key to moving the world's agriculture on a more productive and sustainable path. Recent advances in IoT, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) have the potential to address some of the environmental, economic, and technical challenges and opportunities. Computing that used to be done in the cloud can now be done at the edge (close to objects without needing to be sent and processed to the cloud). Monitoring, control, sensors and actuators can be defined locally, data transmission and further analysis data can be continued from the edge to the cloud. Protocol Low Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy (LEACH) has been widely used as a protocol for WSN. Therefore, the authors are interested in presenting the effect of the p-value on LEACH on WSN performance. The experimental results show that the main effect of the parameter is given by p=0.05, which produces the best performance for 100 nodes.