Design of Distance Based Reactive Routing Clustering Protocol for Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

A Wireless Sensor Network consists of sensor nodes which sense, accumulate data and transmit those to the base station. Since these remote sensor nodes in the network are battery constrained, it is important to choose a suitable energy efficient routing protocol to prolong the network lifetime. In this paper we propose a heterogeneous sensitive routing protocol with distance based efficient clustering. We assess the performance of our protocol using MATLAB and compare the results with other protocols namely SEP, ZSEP, TSEP and ETSEP. The simulation outcomes show that the suggested protocol is better than the existing ones as far as the lifetime of the network is concerned.