MOBILITY-ZONAL BASED STABLE ELECTION ROUTING PROTOCOL FOR WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS

ABSTRACT Wireless Sensor Network contains huge number of sensor nodes that co-operate to achieve sensing performance in a particular environment. Sensor network information is routed from one sensor node to another sensor node using variety of routing protocols. Different routing Protocols are designed for transmission in wireless sensor networks. Energy consumption is a major issue in sensor network, so many researchers are carried out in energy efficient routing protocols. This paper describes routing technique, types of routing protocol based on the structure and operation of the sensor network. The proposed Mobility Zonal based Stable Election Protocol, detects the mobility of nodes in the sensor network and improves the protocol performance in terms of stability period and network lifetime. Simulation results show that Mobility Zonal based Stable Election Protocol (Mob-ZSEP) performs better than the existing protocols Stable Election Protocol (SEP) and Zonal Stable Election Protocol (Z-SEP). Keywords: Sensor nodes, Clustering technique, Energy efficiency, Routing protocol.