Parametric Review of Various Routing Protocols and Effects of Clustering on them in WSN

Abstract

With the recent advancement in technologies, a wireless sensor network comes into the light. It is used to monitor the environment conditions such as sound, temperature, etc. Military surveillance, weather forecast, bridge monitoring, under water movements and so on are the applications of Wireless Sensor Network. A Sensor node is deployed in an environment in such a manner that it forms a network comprising of several sensor nodes. Sensor nodes gathering information and transmit it to a requested party through an electrical signal and during transmission energy loss befall. To accomplish this task routing protocols are used described in this work. Routing protocols helps in transmitting information between nodes. Routing is performed with the help of clustering schemes. There are many promising routing protocols that try to forestall energy loss during transmission but lack some or the other manner.