Mobility and routing in Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

Most existing clustering routing protocols of Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) assume that nodes are stationary. However, in applications like habitat monitoring or search and rescue, that assumption makes those clustering mechanisms invalid, since the static nature of sensors is not real. In this paper, we propose Zone based Routing Protocol for Mobile Sensor Networks (ZoroMSN) that considers the design aspects such as mobility of sensors, zones and routes maintenance, information update and communication between sensor nodes. Simulation results show the effectiveness and strengths of the ZoroMSN protocol such as a low routing and mobility overhead, while achieving a good performance in WSN using small zone sizes and sensors with low speed.