CLUSTER BASED ROUTING PROTOCOL FOR WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS

Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is an emerging technology that is predicted to change the human life in future. It can be deployed in such situation where human interaction is not possible like border area tracking enemy movement or fire detection system. Wireless sensor networks have critical applications in scientific, medical, industrial and military domains. Information is collected from many sensor devices and they can be used for further consumer application in the Sensor network. In such a case routing is very prominent one. Routing is the process of selecting paths in a network along which to send network traffic. But, various routing protocols have been proposed, but they are not scalable. In this paper, we propose cluster based routing protocol (CBRP) based on Inter-cluster Routing algorithm and Intra cluster routing algorithm, which provides low cost communication between clusters. Through our new protocols have increased the throughput and number of packets in the network and we decreased the average latency and control overhead. At present the proposed idea is implemented and tested for both intra cluster routing and inter cluster routing. We have also evaluated the performance of CBRP with AODV (Adhoc On-Demand Distance Vector), DSDV (Destination-Sequenced Distance Vector) and DSR (Dynamic Source Routing).