Abstract—In this paper, we analyze energy-aware geographical routing protocols with different parameters in wireless sensor networks. Geographic routing is a forwarding protocol that relies on geographic-position information. It is an on-demand type of routing that uses a “greedy” forwarding approach, in which a sensor node forwards a packet to a neighbor closest to the destination node. We study, through simulation, the effect of geographical energy aware routing on packet delivery, hop count, live nodes, and cluster hit rate values over a sensor network’s lifetime. Our study is accomplished over two types of network architectures: flat and identical sensor nodes and two- level nodes divided into cluster nodes, and regular sensor nodes.

 

Index Terms—sensor networks, geographical routing, energy aware routing

Cite: Khaled Hadi, "Analyses of Energy-Aware Geographic Routing Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks," Lecture Notes on Information Theory, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 44-48, June 2017. doi: 10.18178/lnit.5.1.44-48