A Qualitative Analysis on Application Routing Algorithms in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN)

Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) routing techniques are extremely essential on a global scale. All routing and clustering protocols play an important role in communication and networking applications. In particular, Environment-based and traffic-based routing protocols play a predominant role in wireless sensor networks. This study investigates the routing challenges, power and energy requirements in various WSN applications. The performance metrics like reliability, network lifetime, and throughput are majorly considered in diverse WSN applications. This study focuses on investigating various routing and clustering protocols that influ-ence WSN applications.