Introducing mobility to Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) puts new challenges particularly in designing of routing protocols. Mobility can be applied to the sensor nodes and/or the sink node in the network. Many routing protocols have been developed to support the mobility of WSNs. These protocols are divided depending on the routing structure into hierarchical-based, flat-based, and location-based routing protocols. However, the hierarchical-based routing protocols outperform the other routing types in saving energy, scalability, and extending lifetime of Mobile WSNs (MWSNs). Selecting an appropriate hierarchical routing protocol for specific applications is an important and difficult task. Therefore, this paper focuses on reviewing some of the recently hierarchical-based routing protocols that are developed in the last five years for MWSNs. This survey divides the hierarchical-based routing protocols into two broad groups, namely, classical-based and optimized-based routing protocols. Also, we present a detailed classification of the reviewed protocols according to the routing approach, control manner, mobile element, mobility pattern, network architecture, clustering attributes, protocol operation, path establishment, communication paradigm, energy model, protocol objectives, and applications. Moreover, a comparison between the reviewed protocols is investigated in this survey depending on delay, network size, energy-efficiency, and scalability while mentioning the advantages and drawbacks of each protocol. Finally, we summarize and conclude the paper with future directions.

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A Comprehensive Survey on Hierarchical-Based Routing Protocols for Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks: Review, Taxonomy, and Future Directions

Research on wireless sensor network (WSN) has increased tremendously throughout the years. In WSN, sensor nodes are deployed to operate autonomously in remote environments. Depending on the network...

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Clustering Analysis in Wireless Sensor Networks: The Ambit of Performance Metrics and Schemes Taxonomy

Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks (MWSNs) are a current encouraged technology which is used to help many civilian, military and industrial services. Energy saving is the critical issue while designing the wireless sensor networks. In order to enhance the network life time there are many routing protocols have been developed. One of these is clustering based in which network is partitioned into small clusters and each cluster is examined and controlled by a single node called Cluster Head (CH). In this paper, we propose an enhanced algorithm for Low Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy-Mobile (LEACH-M) protocol called ECBR-MWSN which is Enhanced cluster based routing protocol for mobile nodes in wireless sensor network. ECBR-MWSN protocol selects the CHs using the parameters of highest residual energy, lowest Mobility and least Distance from the Base Station. The BS periodically runs the proposed algorithm to select new CHs after a certain period of time. It is aimed to prolonging the lifetime of the sensor networks by balancing the energy consumption of the nodes. Then compare the performance of our proposed algorithm with the cluster based protocols using ns2 simulator. The simulation result indicates that the proposed algorithm gives better performance in terms of higher packet delivery ratio, throughput, energy consumption, routing overhead, and delay.

Enhanced cluster based routing protocol for mobile nodes in wireless sensor network

In the world of the Internet of Things (IoT), wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are an impressive technology. These networks are extremely resource constrained and require the design of energy-efficient routing techniques. The clustering and location prediction routing method based on multiple mobile sinks (CLRP-MMSs) for the Mobile Internet of Things (MIoT) is presented in this article. Recently, mobile sinks are used in routing more durability and energy saving in WSN. In this work, first, the entire nodes are divided into clusters, and then each cluster selects a cluster head (CH) by calculating the CH choosing function (CHCF). When clustering runs on networks with moving nodes, the possibility of disconnecting the nodes from CH nodes will cause a lot of data loss. It will change the amount of energy and rate of data received, but the amount of wasted energy is reduced by predicting the location and reducing the sink and CH nodes’ distance. The simulation results using NS-2 clearly showed that the proposed method improves energy consumption at least 28.12% and increases throughput at least 26.74% compared to energy efficient routing algorithm with mobile sink support and high-available and location-predictive data gathering scheme using mobile sink methods.

A New Preventive Routing Method Based on Clustering and Location Prediction in the Mobile Internet of Things

Location aware sensor routing (LASeR) protocol is a novel solution to the challenges of routing in mobile wireless sensor networks (MWSNs). It addresses the high reliability and low latency requirements of emerging applications. The protocol uses location information to maintain a gradient field even in highly mobile environments, whilst reducing the routing overhead. This allows the protocol to utilise a blind forwarding technique to propagate packets towards the sink. The protocol inherently utilises multiple paths simultaneously to create route diversity and increase its robustness. LASeR is designed for use in a high variety of MWSN applications with autonomous land, sea or air vehicles. Analytical expressions are derived and evaluated against the simulations. Extensive modelling and simulation of the proposed routing protocol has shown it to be highly adaptable and robust. It is compared with the recent MWSN proactive highly ambulatory sensor routing protocol, the high performance mobility adaptive cross-layer routing protocol, as well as ad-hoc on-demand distance vector and optimised link state routing. Protocols are evaluated on packet delivery ratio, end-to-end delay, overhead, throughput and energy consumption. The results highlight both the high performance of LASeR in various challenging environments and its superiority over the state-of-the-art.

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Location aware sensor routing protocol for mobile wireless sensor networks

In wireless sensor networks, the routing algorithms currently available assume that the sensor nodes are stationary Therefore when mobility modulation is applied to the wireless sensor networks, most of the current routing algorithms suffer from performance degradation The path breaks in mobile wireless networks are due to the movement of mobile nodes, node failure, channel fading and shadowing It is desirable to deal with dynamic topology changes with optimal effort in terms of resource and channel utilization As the nodes in wireless sensor medium make use of wireless broadcast to communicate, it is possible to make use of neighboring node information to recover from path failure Cooperation among the neighboring nodes plays an important role in the context of routing among the mobile nodes This paper proposes an enhancement to an existing protocol for accommodating node mobility through neighboring node information while keeping the utilization of resources to a minimum

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G.S. Kumar

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Routing protocol enhancement for handling node mobility in wireless sensor networks