A Survey on Energy Harvesting Routing Protocol for WSN

Abstract

Wireless Sensor Networks plays a vital in our day to day life in various applications such as healthcare, smart home, smart classroom, and in remote military surveillance. Some of the challenges that our Wireless Sensor Networks faces to combat with the energy saving issues are clustering, choosing the cluster head, data aggregation, routing techniques and protocols. This aims at reviewing various techniques and protocols that can be applied in WSN for efficient usage of the energy constraint and for extending the lifespan of the network in various aspects of routing and its protocols. This paper summarizes the advantage, disadvantages and the open research issues and challenges in combating the energy usage efficiently.