Energy-aware routing for wireless sensor networks by ARP

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are comprised of energy constrained nodes. This limitation has led to the crucial need for energy-aware protocols to produce an efficient network. In this paper, we propose an energy aware geographical multipath routing scheme for WSNs. The distance to the destination location, remaining battery capacity, and queue size of candidate sensor nodes in the local communication range are taken into consideration for next hop relay node selection, and Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) is applied for decision making. Simulation results show that this scheme can extend the network lifetime longer than the original geographical routing scheme which only considers distance to the destination location. Moreover, the proposed scheme can reduce the packet loss rate and link failure rate since the buffer capacity is considered.