Design Issues, Principles and Routing Challenges in Sensor Networks

摘要

The sensor network is one the popular means of communication in today's era of networking. These networks which are formed using tiny battery powered sensor nodes are capable of sensing the parameters, doing computation and doing communication wirelessly. Researchers looked into the energy efficiency factor at the time of designing networks. To achieve greater energy efficiency, the importance must be given to routing protocols which might differ depending on the application area and the network architecture. In this paper, main focus has been put on the various routing techniques, design challenges of routing protocols along with the performance issues of each routing technique. Also paper highlights on comprehensive analysis of different routing techniques used in sen sor networks to achieve better energy efficiency.