ABSTRACT

The Recent Advances in Wireless Sensor Networks which have led to many new protocols specifically designed for sensor networks where energy awareness is an essential consideration. It is necessary to identify the performance challenges of WSN and analyze their impact on the performance of routing protocols. It surveys recent routing protocols for sensor networks and presents a classification for the various approaches pursued. Due to the limited processing power, finite power available to each sensor node, regular ad hoc routing techniques cannot be directly applied to sensor networks domain. These energy-efficient routing algorithms suitable to the inherent characteristics of these types of networks are needed. Routing algorithms must also be robust to failures, and provide low latency. This paper makes a performance comparison of three sensor network routing protocols, namely, Rumor routing, Stream Enable Routing (SER) and SPIN (Sensor Protocols for Information Via Negotiation). These protocols are classified on the based on data-centric, hierarchical and location-based. The performance of these protocols are compared by Simulation Parameters like Agents per Events, Agent TTL, Query Delivery, Cycle rate