DEEP: Delay and energy efficient proactive routing protocol for event-driven WSNs

WSNs are used in many application fields thanks to their low cost and ease of deployment. They are generally used to control hostile and inaccessible areas. Thus, they require a QoS support. This paper presents a routing protocol, called Delay and energy efficient proactive routing protocol for event-driven WSNs (DEEP). The later is a hierarchical solution that uses a shortest path routing tree and a clustering algorithm to perform aggregation. This protocol aims to create a trade-off between the minimization of the end-to-end delay and the energy consumption as QoS metrics. The simulation shows good results in terms of average delay, energy consumption, and packet delivery rate.