Performance analysis of routing protocols in mobile wireless sensor network

Abstract

Static wireless sensor network (WSN) routing protocols result in hot spot problem. In order to avoid hot-spot problem, routing protocols using mobile WSN can be used. In literature many routing protocols have been proposed based on mobile WSN. In this paper, initially mobile routing protocols are presented, later a comparative analysis is performed between mobility-based clustering (MBC) protocol and location aware fault tolerant clustering protocol (LFCP) for mobile WSN based on metrics such as stability period, network lifetime period and energy consumption. The simulation results show that LFCP-MWSN outperform MBC in terms of average stability period, average network lifetime, scalability and energy efficiency.