Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are comprised of thousands of sensor nodes, with restricted energy, that co-operate to accomplish a sensing task. Various routing Protocols are designed for transmission in WSNs. In this paper, we proposed a hybrid routing protocol: Zonal-Stable Election Protocol (Z-SEP) for heterogeneous WSNs. In this protocol, some nodes transmit data directly to base station while some use clustering technique to send data to base station as in SEP. We implemented Z-SEP and compared it with traditional Low Energy adaptive clustering hierarchy (LEACH) and SEP. Simulation results showed that Z-SEP enhanced the stability period and throughput than existing protocols like LEACH and SEP.
@article{arxiv.1303.5364,
title = {Z-SEP: Zonal-Stable Election Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks},
author = {S. Faisal and N. Javaid and A. Javaid and M. A. Khan and S. H. Bouk and Z. A. Khan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.5364},
year = {2013}
}