Lifetime Prediction Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

We propose LPDD (Lifetime Prediction Directed Diffusion), a novel energy-aware routing protocol for sensor networks that aims at increasing network survivability without a significant increase in latency. The key concept behind the protocol is the adaptive selection of routes by predicting the battery lifetime of the minimum energy nodes along the routes. key words: sensor networks, energy-aware routing protocol, lifetime prediction directed diffusion