An Energy-Efficient Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks Using AI Techniques

In the past many years different types of routing protocols, single-path and Multipath, have been designed for wireless sensor networks. We have also found various multipath routing protocols available that send similar data to the base station via multiple paths to increase reliability. We have found that a new simulation environment Castalia is developed based on OMNET++. They have provided implementation of Multipath rings routing protocol. We found that it is based on a technique called Synopsis Diffusion. We observed that although the implementation of the protocol is there, a detailed understanding of the technique is not available in the literature. Hence, in this paper, we have discussed the Multipath rings routing protocol for wireless sensor networks implemented by Castalia Simulator. Here, we have also, evaluated the performance (and hence verified its working) of the Multipath rings routing protocol through simulation. We have taken a view that the Multipath rings routing protocol can route the packet from source to Sink via multiple paths so the network becomes more robust and fault tolerant than the Single path routing. Simulation results also show that the Multipath rings routing protocol is more robust than the Proposed EE routing technique.