A Review on Routing Protocols for Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Network

  Princy Rakholiya

In traditional wireless sensor networks (WSNs), the power supply is a limiting factor on the lifetime of sensor nodes. Routing in WSNs plays a significant role in the field of environment-oriented monitoring, traffic monitoring, etc. A new class of WSN with the ability of harvesting environment power; is providing in recent decades. Energy harvesting technology has made it possible to develop independent WSNs with theoretical unlimited lifetimes. A well-designed energy-efficient routing protocol is an essential part for prolonging the lifetime of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) because a sensor node usually has limited energy. Many research efforts have contributed on routing design in WSNs. With the development of green technology, the energy harvesting technique is being applied to WSNs. Therefore, existing routing protocols are suitable for such new WSNs with energy harvesting. In this paper, we review on designing a routing protocol which takes energy harvesting as one major factor into routing design to improve the network lifetime as well as throughput. The analysis of chosen algorithms in the case of different scenarios is reviewed in this paper.

Keywords- sensor network, routing protocol, energy harvesting, energy sustainability, network lifetime, throughput

Unique Identification Number - IJEDR1702100
Page Number(s) - 578-582
Pubished in - Volume 5 | Issue 2 | April 2017
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Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)

  Princy Rakholiya,   "A Review on Routing Protocols for Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Network", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.5, Issue 2, pp.578-582, April 2017, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR1702100.pdf