Performance Evaluation of Various Routing Protocols and quality of service for Wireless Sensor Network

Abstract

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) provide great promise for target tracking and environmental monitoring. While many WSN routing protocols have been proposed till date, most of these focus on the mobility of observers and assume that targets are fixed. But, practically, many applications require for sensing data to be propagated from multiple mobile targets to multiple mobile observers. In addition, WSNs often operate under strict energy constraints, and therefore reducing energy dissipation is also an important issue. Clustering in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is an important technique to ease topology management and routing. Clustering provides an effective method for prolonging lifetime of a WSN. In this paper we discuss the performance of two protocols like Dynamic Source Routing (DSR), Dynamic MANET On-demand Protocol (DYMO) using CBR (Constant Bit Rate) and Traffic-Gen for Multi-Clustering technique and compare various parameters like Average End-to-End Delay (sec.), Residual Battery Capacity (mAhr), No. of packets received at Coordinator, Average End-to-End Delay at PAN Coordinator (sec.) and Throughput at PAN Coordinator (bits/sec.)