Energy Aware Location Based Routing Protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless Sensor Networks have played a great role in various application domains like environmental tracking for precision agriculture, structural health monitoring, patient health monitoring, intrusion detection, earthquake or volcano prediction and industrial monitoring etc. The major design issues to be dealt in Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are its resource constraint nature, limited network lifetime and scalability. The most stringent of all is energy consumption and battery life which actually limits the network lifetime. This paper presents various energy aware location based routing protocols and in depth comparison based on various characteristics such as routing selection method, data aggregation, routing metrics, periodic message type, scalability, energy efficiency, robustness, event/query based and strengths.