Abstract

In the light of newly developed Technologies, small-sized programmable sensor components capable of various perception and communication capabilities can be designed to collect large scaled data and transmit those to the desired target with partnering methods. A wireless sensor network is defined as a collection of numerous nodes in different locations, organized into a cooperative network in order to follow physical or environmental conditions such as, heat, sound, pressure, motion, pollution…etc. in collaboration. Despite the wireless sensor network systems has a broad range of application areas, limited supplies of power and limited computation and communication capabilities of nodes used in the network brings out various constraints to the designed appliances. Limits of power supply directly affect the lifespan of the wireless sensor networks, thus, studies on the energy efficiency of any node comprising the wireless sensor network has a significant importance. In this work, routing studies developed for wireless sensor networks will be compared in terms of energy efficiency and their superiorities to each other depending on the network structure and environmental conditions will be conceived

Keywords:

• Wireless sensor networks;
• Routing techniques;
• Energy efficiency