Energy based Efficiency Evaluation of Cluster-Based Routing Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs)

In recent years many researchers demonstrate their great interest in cluster based energy efficient routing in Wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Wireless sensor networks are networks of tiny sensor nodes intelligent to data processing, sensing, wireless communication proficiency, along with memory and energy limitations. In the existing era many energy efficient routing protocols for Wireless sensor networks have been proposed to prolong the network lifetime of the minute sensor node however, because of their transformed behavior in altered scenarios performance superior or poorer cannot be observed without any doubt by conventional techniques. The main purpose of this research is to evaluate the performance among energy efficient routing protocols in WSNs based on metrics Overhead, Delay, Packet Delivery Ratio (PDR) and Congestion over Energy consumption and Network lifetime. The current research work can be utilized to guide protocol designing, application-specific protocol selection and modification of the existing routing protocols in Wireless sensor networks. Simulations between Cluster based Data Gathering Protocol ECDGP and cluster based Selective Flooding Routing Protocol SFRP confirms their results in term of Overhead, Delay, Packet Delivery Ratio and Congestion over Energy consumption and Network lifetime