Analysis of Intra Cluster Routing Techniques in Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

Wireless sensor networks (WSN) consists of large number of sensor nodes and one or many base stations, to supervise particular physical or environmental conditions, for example temperature, sound, vibration, pressure, or motion. The nodes in WSN are battery operated in general; therefore, every operation in WSN should be energy aware. Routing in WSN is handled by network layer across the network from source to destination that should perform its task in energy aware fashion. There are different types of routing protocols and cluster routing is one of those different types. In literature, it has been suggested that hybrid routing is the energy aware and load balanced routing technique. In this thesis, we have analyzed different routing intra cluster routing techniques. In this thesis, we have recommended the best intra cluster routing technique which is good for load balancing in order to increase the life time of the network. We have proposed and analyzed three different types of hybrid intra cluster routing which are not present in the literature. In order to reach conclusion, we have implemented/ simulated and compared different intra cluster routing techniques proposed in the literature. It has been proved that the recommended algorithm extends the life time of the WSN and distributes the load among the nodes more uniformly