Taxonomy of routing protocols in wireless sensor networks: A survey

Recent advancements in wireless technology has led to tremendous growth in deployment of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). WSNs are comprised of sensors and actuators nodes, densely deployed over some geographic location to sense, collect, process and send data wirelessly to central data collector. The communication among different wireless sensor nodes is administered by routing protocols; hence the performance of WSN highly depends on adopted routing technique. Many such energy efficient and quality routing protocols have been designed over the years in order to increase the performance of communication in WSNs. In this paper, an exhaustive review and taxonomy of routing protocols is discussed on the basis of network structures and data transmission techniques. This study will help WSN system designers to select appropriate routing protocol for particular application.