Design of energy aware collection tree protocol in Wireless Sensor Network

Abstract

In today's world, WSN (Wireless Sensor network) have gained a lot of attention due to its applications. Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) consist of small nodes with sensing, computation, and wireless communications capabilities. Designing a routing protocol in WSN is a very challenging task many routing, power management, and data dissemination protocols have been specifically designed for WSNs where energy awareness is an essential design issue. The focus, however, has been given to the routing protocols which might differ depending on the application and network architecture. In this paper we have discussed a routing protocol CTP (Collection Tree Protocol) which is responsible for constructing and maintaining the routing tree to send data to the root node. We have proposed an algorithm which saves energy in CTP in routing by recovering a damaged route. We have run the CTP protocol on TOSSIM Simulator in Tinyos2.1.2.