Impact of Routing Protocol on the Performance of Wireless Sensor Network

Md. Khaled Ben Islam; Julia Rahman; Md. Al Mehedi Hasan; Md. Moyen Uddin

In Wireless Sensor Networks, most sensor nodes are deployed with limited resources and dissemination of sensed information is one of the resource intensive tasks. Proper utilization of those limited resources in case of information routing is one of the key factors for the performance and lifetime of a sensor network. These issues are more challenging when sensor networks are considered as building block of Internet of Things. In our work, we have investigated the impact of routing protocol selection on the performance of a wireless sensor network in IoT context. We have simulated different types wireless sensor network with DSDV, AODV, DYMO, DSR, and OLSR routing protocols using network simulator NS-2. In all these scenarios, we have used Packet Delivery Ratio, Throughput, End-to-End delay, Normalized Routing Load and Data Packet Loss as metric to analyze the performance of each considered routing techniques. Simulation results suggest that selection of routing protocol for a particular wireless sensor network has great significance on the overall performance of the network and for selecting a routing protocol, it would be better to consider the nature of the network first to achieve higher performance.

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• Volume 6 Issue 1, Jan. 2015

Year:

2015

Type of Publication:

Article

Keywords:

Wireless Sensor Network; Internet of Things; Routing Protocol; DSDV; AODV; DSR; DYMO; OLSR

Journal:

IJECCE

Volume:

6

Number:

1

Pages:

115-122

Month:

Jan.-Feb.

ISSN:

2249-071X