Comprehensive Study of Routing Management in Wireless Sensor Networks - Part - II

Increasing computing and wireless communication capabilities will expand the role of the sensors from mere information dissemination to more demanding tasks as sensor fusion, classification, collaborative target tracking. Wireless sensor nodes can be mobile within a chosen area and communicate with neighboring nodes in the bounds of protocol limits. Typically they are densely deployed in large numbers and are prone to failures, and frequent topology changes. Among many concerns about design of sensor networks are growing bandwidth demands, speed of information retrieval and transporting bytes over the wireless networks to provide a quality service for the diverse requirements of the users, such as signal processing or multimedia applications. This Paper has been split in two parts to discuss past and ongoing research in routing schemes in WSNs. Current work a comprehensive investigation of different routing schemes used in wireless sensor networks. Depending on the sensor applications, the design challenge, advantage and performance concern for each routing protocols is also revealed.