Title: Performance analysis of routing protocols in mobile wireless sensor network

Authors: P. Khandnor; T.C. Aseri

Addresses: CSE Department, PEC University of Technology, Chandigarh, India ' CSE Department, PEC University of Technology, Chandigarh, India

Abstract: Static wireless sensor network (WSN) routing protocols result in hot spot problem. In order to avoid hot-spot problem, routing protocols using mobile WSN can be used. In literature many routing protocols have been proposed based on mobile WSN. In this paper, initially mobile routing protocols are presented, later a comparative analysis is performed between mobility-based clustering (MBC) protocol and location aware fault tolerant clustering protocol (LFCP) for mobile WSN based on metrics such as stability period, network lifetime period and energy consumption. The simulation results show that LFCP-MWSN outperform MBC in terms of average stability period, average network lifetime, scalability and energy efficiency.

Keywords: wireless sensor networks; WSNs; mobile networks; mobility-based clustering; MBC; location aware fault tolerant clustering protocol; LFCP; low energy adaptive clustering hierarchy; LEACH; cluster heads; sink nodes; hot spots; LEACH-mobile; LEACH-mobile enhanced; LEACH-M; LEACH-ME; CBR; cluster-based routing; performance evaluation; routing protocols; energy consumption; simulation; network stability; network lifetime, scalability; energy efficiency.

DOI: 10.1504/IJICT.2016.074846

International Journal of Information and Communication Technology, 2016 Vol.8 No.2/3, pp.198 - 211

Received: 30 Jan 2014
Accepted: 30 Jun 2014
Published online: 21 Feb 2016 *

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