Performance Analysis of Routing Protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) are the networks which comprised of multiple sensing units that have the ability of networking wirelessly, monitor the environmental conditions and can perform signal processing. WSNs are limited by energy, storage capability and power consumption. Therefore, it is important to consider these limitations while choosing routing protocols for WSN. The routing protocols can be categorized based on their attributes and network typology. Performance of these routing protocols can be evaluated by the several performance metrics. This evaluation can be analyzed the performance of routing protocols and the optimization can be done using that analysis. In this project, some of the cluster head based routing protocols will be selected and simulate using MATLAB and the simulated results will be analyzed. Firstly, Low Energy Efficient Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy (LEACH) routing protocol is simulated in MATLAB and analyzed the performance. It is one the most popular routing protocols based on cluster-head routing algorithm. Stable Election Protocol (SEP) routing protocol is also simulated using MATLAB in this project and the evaluation of the performance of the protocol will be discussed.