An analysis of hierarchical multi-hop routing protocols for large wireless sensor networks

Wireless sensor networks represent technology for networking of sensor devices, as well as for other devices in IoT systems. The hierarchical routing protocols have many advantages when these networks are used in monitoring applications, with the energy efficient hierarchical multi-hop routing proposed for large scale networks that assures reliable data gathering in the non-ideal connectivity conditions. We here propose a modification of our previously designed multi-hop routing concept by employing clustering algorithm from HEED protocol in order to achieve uniformly placed clusters. The conducted analysis for several multi-hop protocols showed good performance of here proposed solution for ideal and non-ideal network connectivity.