A modified SPIN for wireless sensor networks

Abstract

Data transmission is one of the major challenges in wireless sensor network (WSN). Different routing protocols have been proposed to save energy during data transmission in WSN. Routing protocols based on data-centric approach are suitable in this context that performs in-network aggregation of data to yield energy saving data dissemination. In this paper we propose a modified version of SPIN protocol named M-SPIN and compare its performance with traditional SPIN protocol using broadcast communication, which is a well known protocol as benchmark. We evaluate the M-SPIN protocol using simulation in TOSSIM environment. We find that, M-SPIN exhibits significant performance gains than traditional SPIN routing.