Towards an Integrated Geographic Routing Approach using Estimated Sensors Position in WSNs

Geographic routing protocols have been developed to increase the effectiveness and the usefulness of wireless sensor networks in many emerging applications. In these protocols, the routing decision, at each sensor node, is based only on the positions of the destination node and forwarding node's neighbors. However, these protocols are based on exact sensors position, assuming that sensors are equipped with a geographic positioning or a localization-based technique. Recently, several techniques, such DV-Hop, have been proposed for estimating sensors' positions. This paper introduces an integrated geographic routing protocol by integrating both sensors' position estimation and geographic routing techniques. We have mainly combined DV-Hop for estimating sensors position and the greedy perimeter stateless protocol for data forwarding and routing. Simulations have been carried out and results are reported to show the efficiency of the proposed hybrid geographic routing protocol in WSNs.