A Faster Routing Scheme for Stationary Wireless Sensor Networks - A Hybrid Approach

TL;DR

This paper introduces a hybrid routing protocol for stationary wireless sensor networks that improves response time by balancing load and considering multiple factors beyond just energy efficiency.

Contribution

It proposes a novel hybrid routing scheme that enhances speed and load balancing in stationary sensor networks, addressing issues like delay and redundancy.

Findings

Faster routing protocol demonstrated in simulations.

Improved load balancing and reduced delay.

Enhanced data redundancy management.

Abstract

A wireless sensor network consists of light-weight, low power, small size sensor nodes. Routing in wireless sensor networks is a demanding task. This demand has led to a number of routing protocols which efficiently utilize the limited resources available at the sensor nodes. Most of these protocols are either based on single hop routing or multi hop routing and typically find the minimum energy path without addressing other issues such as time delay in delivering a packet, load balancing, and redundancy of data. Response time is very critical in environment monitoring sensor networks where typically the sensors are stationary and transmit data to a base station or a sink node. In this paper a faster load balancing routing protocol based on location with a hybrid approach is proposed.