PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF SELF ORGANIZATION PROTOCOLS USING AODV ROUTING PROTOCOL

Recent advances in wireless sensor networks have led to many new protocols for self organization specifically designed for sensor networks where energy awareness is an essential consideration. It is one of the major research areas in computer network field today. The WSN has important applications such as disaster management, combat field reconnaissance, border protection and security surveillance. Sensed data need to be delivered to the base station using multihop and must cope with the network unreliability problem and the energy consumption. For minimum energy consumption, all the steps from node deployment to network architecture (Clustered Network) and from environment sensing to communicating the sensed data to base station (routing) should carefully be designed. Few routing and self organization protocols take into consideration of these problems. It is a great challenge of the hierarchical self organization protocols to provide network survivability through redundancy features. In this paper, a short literature review of the existing self organization protocols and routing protocols are carried out. Then, a comparison of self organization protocol was performed using a reactive routing protocol, Ad hoc On Demand Distance Vector (AODV). This comparison addresses network survivability and redundancy issues. Finally, conclusion was drawn based on the research and future direction for further research is identified.