An Anycast Routing Protocol Based on Mobile Agent for Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

The performances of most demand-driven anycast routing protocols for wireless sensor networks(WSN) are not good in terms of time delay and energy consumption. For the problem, an anycast routing protocol based on mobile agent for WSN is proposed in this paper. In this protocol, only one-hop neighbor nodes routing information is required by each sensor node, and their monitoring data needs to report to any base station by their cluster-head. Cluster heads search anycast members routing information by mobile agents and establish an anycast routing table. We then present energy consumption model of our protocol. Experiments data show that our protocol has a better performance of energy consumption in a large-scale or a high-density network..