Journal of Applied Sciences1812-56541812-5662Asian Network for Scientific Information10.3923/jas.2013.984.993NazemoroayaShirin Mohd. HanapiZurina 72013137The Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) field of research is an
interesting topic in the research community these days, because of its applicability
in various fields such as civilian and medical research applications. Due to
the resources and energy constraints in WSNs, routing can be considered as one
of the most important issues in these networks. Every routing protocol designed
for WSNs should be reliable, energy-efficient and prolong the network lifetime.
This research proposes a beacon-enabled least-time and energy-efficient routing
protocol with one-level data-aggregation using an IEEE 802.15.4 which is suitable
for Low-Rate Wireless Personal Area Networks as WSNs, because of its low power
consuming feature. The proposed protocol is compared to popular ad hoc and WSNs
routing protocols i.e., Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector, Dynamic Source
Routing, Destination-Sequenced Distance Vector routing, Directed Diffusion and
Minimum Cost Forwarding. The propose work is simulated using network simulator
2. The simulation results show that the proposed protocol outperformed the routing
protocols in the literature in terms of latency, throughput, average energy
consumption and average network lifetime.]]>Akyildiz, I.F., W. Su, Y. Sankarasubramaniam and E. Cayirci,200238393422Benson, J.P., T. O'Donovan, P. O'Sullivan, U. Roedig and C. Sreenan et al.,20062006pp: 588595Breslau, L., D. Estrin, K. Fall, S. Floyd and J. Heidemann et al.,2000335967Faridi, A., M.R. Palattella, A. Lozano, M. Dohler and G. Boggia et al.,20105939173932Gowrishankar, S., S.K. Sarkar and T.G. Basavaraju,20092009pp: 5963Handy, M.J., M. Haase and D. Timmermann,20022002pp: 368372Perkins, C.E. and P. Bhagwat,199424234244Intanagonwiwat, C., R. Govindan and D. Estrin,20002000pp: 5667Iwanicki, K. and M. van Steen,20128134Jiang, Q. and D. Manivannan,20042004pp: 9398Johnson, D.B. and D.A. Maltz,1996353153181Kohvakka, M., M. Kuorilehto, M. Hannikainen and T. Hamalainen,20062006pp: 4857Liu, Z., B. Wang and L. Guo,2010910811092Manjeshwar, A. and D.P. Agrawal,20012001pp: 3018930189Misra, S. and P.D. Thomasinous,201083852860Patil, N.S. and P.R. Patil,20102010pp: 2829Perrig, A., R. Szewczyk, J.D. Tygar, V. Wen and D.E. Culler,20028521534Ting, K.S., G.K. Ee, C.K. Ng, N.K. Noordin and B.M. Ali,20112011pp: 850855Tsirigos, A. and Z.J. Haas,20043138146Vaidyanathan, K., S. Sur, S. Narravula and P. Sinha,20042004Veggeberg, K.,20112011pp: 433442Xu, M., L. Ma, F. Xia, T. Yuan and J. Qia et al.,20102010pp: 239243Ye, F., A. Chen, S. Lu and L. Zhang,20012001pp: 304309Yu, Y., R. Govindan and D. Estrin,20012001Perkins, C., E. Belding-Royer and S. Das,20032003