LMEEC: Layered Multi-Hop Energy Efficient Cluster-based Routing Protocol   for Wireless Sensor Networks
  In this paper, we propose LMEEC, a cluster-based routing protocol with low energy consumption for wireless sensor networks. Our protocol is based on a strategy which aims to provide a more reasonable exploitation of the selected nodes (cluster-heads) energy. Simulation results show the effectiveness of LMEEC in decreasing the energy consumption, and in prolonging the network lifetime, compared to LEACH. 
Manel Khelifi, Assia Djabelkhir
cs.NI