Nowadays Wireless sensor network is one of the fastest growing and emerging area in the scientific and engineering world .Its basic objective is to sense the crucial data and send it Base station so that it take corrective actions further. Sensor nodes interact with each other via various Routing protocols. This paper surveys various network structure and network operation based routing protocols, and explains the current developments of each protocol pursued .The three basic categories of routing techniques explored here are Data centric, hierarchical and location based protocol. Afterward, various QOS protocols are also surveyed with their recent research work. Further, in this paper, ongoing research and future directions in routing are discussed.
KeywordsWSN, LEACH, SPEED, PEGASIS, GBR, SPIN.
INTRODUCTIONRecent advancements in the field of computing, sensing and communications have attracted Researchers from various quarters for making huge investments in the field of WSN. However, WSN are still in research period and deployed in various applications like monitoring of environment, crop , wildlife, air pollution, urban traffic, volcanic eruption, heritage buildings and detections of landslides, tsunami , emplaced an IED, Healthcare [2].WSN is self organized group of multiple nodes (motes) that can sense the surrounding environmental condition such as humidity, illumination, temperature. Each node senses the data and transmits it to BS for performing specific application [1].Maximum battery energy of motes is consumed in data transmission and reception. Thus, it is essential for routing protocols to prolong sensor node's lifetime by utilizing energy properly, route data via paths that can evade low energy sensor nodes and reduces transmission power in order to maximize WSN's lifetime. This paper provides the various routing protocols which gives possible solutions to the problems.The rest of the paper is structured as follows. Section 1 exhibits the various routing techniques in WSN. A classification and comprehensive survey of routing protocols based on network structure and network operation and its descendents is presented in Section 2. Here we summarize past and current developments in each categorized protocol. Section 3 highlights the ongoing research and future directions in routing. We conclude with final remarks in Section 4.
DIFFERENT ROUTING TECHNIQUESThere are basic two routing techniques that are Network structure and Network operations [1] as shown in Fig 1. Further, they are divided into three categories as data centric, hierarchical and location based on the basis of the structure of the network. However, on the basis of operations of network, QoS based protocols and their current developments are discussed.• Data centric Routing-Data centric routing is query based where data are requested through queries. It depends on the naming scheme for the data which eliminates redundant transmissions. Attribute based naming is used for specifying characteristics of data. Here, Sensor node choose...