A Survey of Real-Time Routing Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks
Sandhya Rachamalla, Anitha Sheela Kancharla · International Journal of Computer Science & Engineering Survey · 2013
Sensor networks is an interdisciplinary research area that draws on contributions from signal processing, wireless networking and associated routing protocols, database management and information systems, distributed algorithms and MEMS technology.Recent developments in Wireless Sensor Networks have resulted in wide variety of real-time applications.Many real-time routing protocols are designed to meet the requirements of these applications where timely delivery of the sensed information is given the top priority.This paper presents the comparative analysis of various existing real-time routing protocols for wireless sensor networks, which emphasizes on various factors like end-to-end delay, energy, mobility, scalability and highlighted various challenges for future research.