Implementation and Analysis of Multiple Criteria Decision Routing Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Network

Abstract

Energy consumption is the key design criterion for routing data in wireless sensor network. However, some applications of wireless sensor network like disaster management, battlefield control etc. demand fast data delivery. In this paper, a data forwarding technique is proposed and its performance is compared with flooding algorithm. Here, the source nodes or intermediate nodes select a next node to forward the data to the destination based on different criteria. The process repeats until data reach the destination. In Multiple Criteria Decision Routing algorithm next node to forward the data is selected based on both its distance to the sink node and the remaining energy of the node. A comparative study of the performance of these techniques has been carried out and results are presented in this paper. In the simulation results show that Multiple Criteria Decision Routing algorithm performance is better than flooding algorithm.

Keywords: Multiple Criteria Decision Routing (MCDR), Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN)