Hierarchical Routing Protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks: A Survey and its Comparison

In Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), profound research articles are presented to address the hierarchical routing protocols which reduce the energy consumption of sensor nodes and also prolong the life of the network. The state of art of this research article focus on the survey of different hierarchical routing protocols which is utilized to efficiently deliver the sensed data from source to sink node. This article presents a detailed survey on major clustering techniques LEACH, SEP, PEGASIS, and TEEN. Also, this article strongly examines about the advantages and limitations of each hierarchical routing protocol with its recent research issues. Finally, the paper concludes with some of the research issues in hierarchical routing protocols of wireless sensor networks