Energy Efficient Routing Protocol for Sensor Networks: A Review

Wireless distributed sensor systems will enable the reliable monitoring of a variety of environments for both civil and military applications. In the proposed paper, we have focused on communication protocols, which have significant impact on the overall energy dissipation of the sensor networks. If the energy consumption is reduced it can prolongs the lifetime of these network. During recent years many energy efficient routing protocols have been developed for Sensor Networks. This paper describes two protocols for distributed clustering and multi-hop routing. We survey different clustering and routing protocols for the sensor network. We have studied their objectives and characteristics and also seen some advantages and disadvantages. Comparison of certain routing protocols based on different parameters is done. Keywords— Wireless Sensor Network, clustering protocols, routing protocol. _______________________________________________*****____________________________________________________