TY - CHAP U1 - Konferenzveröffentlichung A1 - Sikora, Axel A1 - Ahmad, Awais A1 - Pasha, Muhammad Adeel A1 - Ahmad, Zahoor A1 - Masud, Shahid T1 - Energy Efficient Sensor Network Routing (EESNR) Protocol For Large Distributed Environmental Monitoring Applications T2 - Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE 9th International Conference on Intelligent Data Acquisition and Advanced Computing Systems: Technology and Applications (IDAACS) N2 - Due to climate change and scarcity of water reservoirs, monitoring and control of irrigation systems is now becoming a major focal area for researchers in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are rapidly finding their way in the field of irrigation and play the key role as data gathering technology in the domain of IoT and CPS. They are efficient for reliable monitoring, giving farmers an edge to take precautionary measures. However, designing an energy-efficient WSN system requires a cross-layer effort and energy-aware routing protocols play a vital role in the overall energy optimization of a WSN. In this paper, we propose a new hierarchical routing protocol suitable for large area environmental monitoring such as large-scale irrigation network existing in the Punjab province of Pakistan. The proposed protocol resolves the issues faced by traditional multi-hop routing protocols such as LEACH, M-LEACH and I-LEACH, and enhances the lifespan of each WSN node that results in an increased lifespan of the whole network. We used the open-source NS3 simulator for simulation purposes and results indicate that our proposed modifications result in an average 27.8% increase in lifespan of the overall WSN when compared to the existing protocols. Y1 - 2017 SN - 978-1-5386-0697-1 (digital) SB - 978-1-5386-0697-1 (digital) SN - 978-1-5386-0694-0 (CD-ROM) SB - 978-1-5386-0694-0 (CD-ROM) SN - 978-1-5386-0698-8 (Print on Demand) SB - 978-1-5386-0698-8 (Print on Demand) U6 - https://doi.org/10.1109/IDAACS.2017.8095188 DO - https://doi.org/10.1109/IDAACS.2017.8095188 VL - 2 SP - 740 EP - 745 PB - IEEE ER -