Research and analysis on routing protocols for wireless sensor networks

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are the products which integrate sensor techniques, embedded techniques, distributed information processing and communication techniques. The appearance of the wireless sensor network is I revolution in information sensing and detection. Recently, both academia and industries show great interest in sensor networks. In this paper, the architecture of the wireless sensor network and the WSNs features are introduced. And then this paper studies recent routing protocols for wireless sensor networks and presents a variety of classification of them, as well as contrasts and compares the representative routing protocols. At last, several future open issues of the wireless sensor networks are put forward.