Routing protocol in sensor network

Routing protocol in sensor network: In sensor network the routing of information can happen within a cluster or between nodes of different clusters.
If the routing is happening within a cluster. Then the protocol is called as intra cluster routing.
If the routing is happening between the nodes of different clusters it is called as inter cluster routing.

Intracluster routing
In intracluster routing, the packets are transmitter with in a cluster It can be of two types.
1. Direct routing algorithm
2. Multihop routing algorithm
In direct routing, the cluster head as the destination for all cluster nodes. The cluster nodes can communicate directly with cluster nodes.


In multihop the destination is reached through multiple hops. If there are many paths. Then only the path which is energy efficient will be considered. In multihop routing, a node might have to under go multiple hops before it reaches the destination. The sensor node will be at different distances apart from other nodes. A packet from a node is routed to a neighbor node that exhibits high energy. The number in the node indicates the remaining energy in the node

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