Abstract
Wireless sensor networks are challenging networks regarding communication because of its resource constrained nature and dynamic network topology. Plenty of research has being going on throughout the world to optimize communication cost and overhead due to it in the ad hoc networks, thus efforts are being made to make the communications more energy efficient. The application spectrum and use cases of wireless sensor networks includes many critical applications as environmental monitoring, to resource monitoring, to Industrial measurements, to public safety applications and last but not the least to sensitive applications as military sector applications .The erratic size of such networks and along with its exotic topology pose a magnificent set of challenges to the routing algorithms designed and implemented within such networks. The present work concentrates on the comparative analysis of some of reactive and proactive protocols used in the wireless sensor networks. The parameter for comparative analysis is the energy consumption for different simulation time and for different mobility conditions based scenario.
Highlights
The application spectrum and use cases of wireless sensor networks includes many critical applications as environmental monitoring, to resource monitoring, to Industrial measurements, to public safety applications and last but not the least to sensitive applications as military sector applications .The erratic size of such networks and along with its exotic topology pose a magnificent set of challenges to the routing algorithms designed and implemented within such networks
The present work concentrates on the comparative analysis of some of reactive and proactive protocols used in the wireless sensor networks
A wireless sensor network [1] can be described as a wireless network comprising of a group of randomly deployed mobile communication nodes that interact among themselves without the need of use of any centralized authority or any fixed infrastructure
Summary
A wireless sensor network [1] can be described as a wireless network comprising of a group of randomly deployed mobile communication nodes that interact among themselves without the need of use of any centralized authority or any fixed infrastructure. In these types of networks each node functions as a host (sender/receiver) as well as a router itself. Routing in sensor network faces extreme challenges because of node mobility/dynamics, extremely large number of nodes and very limited communication resources (e.g. Bandwidth and energy).The other technological challenges sensor network includes communication stability, security, energy consumption and most importantly quality of services. Though the present work considers the second scenario for the comparative analysis, the same could be extended for all the four scenarios implemented
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