IMPROVED CLUSTERING ALGORITHM FOR MANET FOR IOT APPLICATION IN FIELD OF MILITARY

Abstract

IOT is continuous developing technology in spanning lot of existing and new developing fields of current world. Various IOT applications are developing and growing enormously covering areas of various technological and non-technological industries. Lot has been done with IOT in field of Consumer Convenience like home appliances, home security, smart energy saving etc. even can be applied in Defense & Military operations. A military research operation led by hundreds of soldiers and equipped with lot of sensors of different kind moving along with soldiers or independently in random directions with random speeds with purpose of collecting valuable data from field and send it to base station in real time. Here we are proposing a solution where this IOT based military data can be sent to base station by movable sensors by forming WSN of these sensors as nodes over a large geographical area and WSN sensors connected to each other in form of MANET where each sensor is represented by node in MANET. LEACH protocol in MANET is widely famous and has main purpose of optimum utilization of energy resources or sensor batteries in WSN and prolonging network lifetime. Here we proposed improved mechanism of existing LEACH protocol for MANET formed by mobile sensors of IOT based application i.e. in field of military and achieving whole military operation even more reliably, efficiently and successfully. First, we have proposed improvement in LEACH protocol by improving its Cluster Head Selection process and then implemented other improvements like multi-hop communication for IOT application to achieve our goal.