In Wireless Sensor Network (WSN), the most challenging task is communication through routing protocols. Generally, each node in the network may have limited power resources to communicate with the other nodes without any backbone structures. So, an unbalanced traffic allocation among nodes may cause power dissipation in overloaded nodes. Due to this, path failure has occurred that degrades the network lifetime and its performance. As a result, energy and load-aware routing protocols have been proposed to decrease the energy consumption, avoid energy holes and improve the network lifetime. Hence, an energy and load-balanced aware routing protocol is the most crucial in WSN to transmit the data packets efficiently. This paper presents a detailed review of energy and load-balanced-aware based routing protocols with energy hole avoidance for WSN. Primarily, different energy and load-balanced-aware based routing protocols designed by previous researchers for WSN are briefly studied. Then, a comparative analysis is conducted to understand the drawbacks in those protocols and suggest the new solution to improve the routing in WSN with high network performance.
Volume 11 | 07-Special Issue
Pages: 1492-1496