Single gossiping with directional flooding routing protocol in wireless sensor networks

The traditional routing scheme, flooding, uses straightforward broadcasting to deliver data packets to the destination. This property not only wastes energy but also causes broadcast storms degrading the throughput. In order to solve the problem of heavy packet overhead, the flossiping routing protocol was proposed. Although the flossiping reduces the amount of packets, it suffers longer delay. We propose the single gossiping with directional flooding routing protocol. The gradient concept is added to the design of this scheme to make packet delivery directional. Under the restrictions of sensor networks, the scheme requires only the most basic functions and reasonable resources to achieve packet delivery. It improves on both the heavy overhead and long delay time encountered in the flooding and flossiping schemes.