Effect of Multipath Fading and Propagation Environment on the Performance of a Fermat Point Based Energy Efficient Geocast Routing Protocol
Kaushik Ghosh · International Journal of Wireless & Mobile Networks · 2012
Energy efficiency is a much talked about thing in the domain of geocast routing protocols for Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (WASNs).Fermat point based protocols are capable of reducing the energy consumption of a WASN by reducing the total transmission distance in a multi hop-multi sink scenario.Presently, there are quite a handful of them but many of them have not considered the effect of changing propagation environment around the considered network while measuring the performance of the protocol.Congested environment around a WASN increases the chance of multipath propagation and it in turn introduces multipath fading.In this paper, the effects of both of these factors are considered on the performance of I-Min routing protocol designed for WASNs.