Performance Evaluation of Routing Protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks
Loading...
Authors
Almazaydeh, Laiali
Abdelfattah, Eman
Al-Bzoor, Manal
Al-Rahayfeh, Amer A.
Issue Date
2010-04
Type
Article
Language
en_US
Keywords
Sensor networks , Routing protocols , Low energy adaptive clustering hierarchy (LEACH) , Power-efficient gathering in sensor information systems (PEGASIS) , Virtual grid architecture (VGA) , Sensoria simulator , Energy consumption , Network performance
Alternative Title
Abstract
The efficiency of sensor networks strongly depends on the routing protocol used. In this paper, we analyze three different types of routing protocols: LEACH, PEGASIS, and VGA. Sensor networks are simulated using Sensoria simulator. Several simulations are conducted to analyze the performance of these protocols including the power consumption and overall network performance. The simulation results, using same limited sensing range value, show that PEGASIS outperforms all other protocols while LEACH has better performance than VGA. Furthermore, the paper investigates the power consumption for all protocols. On the average, VGA has the worst power consumption when the sensing range is limited, while VGA is the best when the sensing range is increased.
Description
Citation
Publisher
AIRCC Publishing