A Review on Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Network
Shilpa S Patharwalkar · 2015
The recent advancement with integration of micro electromechanical systems technology, integrated circuit technologies, microprocessor hardware and nano technology, wireless communications, Ad-hoc networking routing protocols, distributed signal processing, and embedded systems have developed the concept of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) . In WSN, the sensor nodes have a limited transmission range, and their processing and storage capabilities as well as their energy resources are also limited. Routing protocols for wireless sensor networks are responsible for maintaining the routes in the network and have to ensure reliable multi-hop communication under these conditions. To prolong the lifetime of the sensor nodes, designing efficient routing protocols is critical. Even though sensor networks are primarily designed for monitoring and reporting events, since they are application dependent, a single routing protocol cannot be efficient for sensor networks across all applications. In this paper, we give a survey of routing protocols for Wireless Sensor Network and compare their strengths and limitations.