An Energy-Balance Multipath Routing Based on Rumor Routing for Wireless Sensor Networks

These nodes have limited energy supply in wireless sensor networks. Thus energy consumption is the main concern while developing routing algorithm in wireless sensor networks. In this paper, we propose a multi-path routing algorithm based on Rumor Routing, called EBMRR (Energy-Balance Multipath Rumor Routing), which is probabilistic approach that attempts to find multipath according to residual energy and energy usage at neighbors, and to evenly distribute the energy consumption over a large part of network by alternatively using one of the multiple paths to transmit data. We compare our proposed algorithm with the energy-efficient routing algorithm and traditional multi-path routing. Simulation results show that our proposed algorithm has higher energy efficiency and longer network lifetime.