Title: EAMRP: energy aware multipath routing protocol for wireless sensor networks

Authors: Suraj Sharma; Pratik Agarwal; Sanjay Kumar Jena

Addresses: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, International Institute of Information Technology Bhubaneswar, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India ' Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Rourkela, Odisha, India ' Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Rourkela, Odisha, India

Abstract: Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are made of the sensor nodes with restricted battery life and transmission capability. In this paper, we propose an energy aware multipath routing protocol for wireless sensor networks. This protocol is designed to improve the lifetime, latency and reliability through discovering multiple paths from the source node to the sink (base station). It is the sink initiated route discovery process with the known location information of the source node. At the end of the route formation, one primary path and number of alternate paths are built. The proposed protocol is implemented and compared with the existing protocols and found that it outperformed the existing protocols in terms of energy consumption, throughput, latency and network lifetime.

Keywords: wireless sensor networks; WSNs; energy efficiency; alternate paths; multipath routing; primary path; energy aware routing protocols; network lifetime; latency; network reliability; energy consumption; throughput.

DOI: 10.1504/IJICT.2016.074865

International Journal of Information and Communication Technology, 2016 Vol.8 No.2/3, pp.235 - 248

Received: 30 Jan 2014
Accepted: 06 Nov 2014

Published online: 21 Feb 2016 *

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