Opportunistic Routing using Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) are used in our daily life for monitoring and controlling
application because of it’s unique features such as low power consumption, reduced cost, and
implementation with ease. To improve the lifetime of wireless sensor networks energy
efficient routing protocol is very necessary to choose in the network layer of WSN. A
comparative analysis based on performance and energy consumption referring to
opportunistic routing algorithm is done. It is being evaluated in terms of energy consumed,
packets lost, flow rate and throughput. We see that Opportunistic routing algorithm performs
way better than the entire traditional routing algorithm. The results provided show that
Opportunistic routing give significant improvement in power consumption.