A Review of Routing Techniques for Different Applications in Wireless Sensor Network

Abstract

Since the development of sensing technology, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have been playing an amazing role in monitoring and early detection of the target applications be it forest fire detection, agricultural, industrial, flood detection, etc. The limited battery of sensor nodes restricts the potential of WSNs for covering various applications. The routing methods can save the energy of sensor nodes meant for various applications. In this paper, we present a review of various routing techniques that are meant for various applications namely, detection of forest fire, landslide, flood, continuous monitoring of the environment, agricultural, underwater, intelligent transportation, etc. To our best knowledge, this is the first-ever review that considers the routing method pertaining to the diversified application of WSN. We focus on the cluster-based routing methods due to their various advantages namely, scalability, energy-preservation, load balancing, etc.