Performance Evaluation of Network Layer Routing Protocols on Wireless Sensor Networks

The wireless sensor network is increasingly gaining attention due to the ubiquitous Internet of Thing (IoT). The wireless sensor network (WSN) basically consists of several nodes which are having the capability to communicate with each other over the wireless media. Further, in terms of network architecture, the most part of the WSN is infrastructure-less, however, the core of such network may comprise of the infrastructure including an access point (AP). The implementation of a particular routing protocol from the bunch of available, is of a great dilemma. Thus, this paper evaluates the effectiveness of different routing protocols for wireless sensor network applications. The effectiveness of the routing protocols is evaluated on the basis of different network performance matrices such as average End-to-End Delay (ETD) and Packet Delivery Ratio (PDR). To evaluate, the performance of WSN, QualNet 5.2, a network simulator is used which is accepted as one of the best network simulators to correctly represent the real-time scenario.