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Given the fact that LEACH protocol didn't take the residual energy of nodes into account when choosing the cluster heads, which may result in the node with rather low energy to be chosen as a cluster head. Thus, it will cause the cluster created by this low-energy node to be dead at an early stage, which wastes the whole network's resource. Here in this paper, we introduced an energy factor when choosing...