Energy Efficient Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

Wireless Sensor Networks is an important research area as, WSNs have number of applications such as battlefield surveillance; today such networks are used in many industrial and consumer applications, such as industrial process monitoring and control, machine health monitoring, and so on. Now one of the biggest constraints is the energy consumed by nodes of WSNs, which requires frequent recharging and thus influences the mobility. So the energy consumption of nodes in WSNs assumes relatively high attention as compare to other parameters. In the proposed work, energy comparison is made on the basis of various parameters such as residual energy Vs Time, Packet Delivery Fraction, Dropped packet Vs Time due decrease in the energy. This comparison is made between various routing protocols such as Flat routing Protocol(DSR,DSDV, Flooding, AODV,MAODV ,Directed Diffusion), Hierarchical Routing Protocols(LEACH),and Location Based Routing Protocols( GAF) and our results indicate that Location Based Routing Protocols performs better than Flat Routing Protocols as well as Hierarchical Routing Protocols(LEACH)