Comparative study of opportunistic routing in Wireless Sensor Networks
Hajer Ben Fradj, Mehdi Bouallegue, Rajoua Anane, Ridha Bouallègue · 2017
Wireless Sensor Network(WSN) has been widely used for monitoring and control applications in our daily lives due to its promising features; such as low cost, low power, and ease of implementation. The choice of energy efficient routing protocol is a vital task in the network layer of wireless sensor networks to improve their lifetime. A performance analysis of energy consumption referring to opportunistic routing algorithms is presented in this paper. The particularly analysis is evaluated in terms of energy consumption, number of candidate groups, flow rate, number of packets lost, and lifetime. Based on the simulation results, we observe that opportunistic routing protocol perform better characteristic than traditionnal protocl (TR). Futhermore, our findings disclose that opportunistic routing algorithm yields in a significant improvement of power consumption.