Research Article

A Clustering Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks Based on Energy Potential Field

Table 2

The average energy consumption when the first node is dead.

Number of nodesLEACHLEACH-MFCMRALEACH-PF

1000.193 J0.191 J0.183 J0.180 J
3000.418 J0.274 J0.252 J0.240 J
5001.066 J0.449 J0.416 J0.395 J