Routing Design in Wireless Sensor Networks and a Solution for Healthcare Environments

Wireless sensor networks (WSN) are currently on development on different application domains. Due the different nature of these applications from demotic to healthcare domains a large number of routing protocols has been proposed according to the application and architecture. This article provides a characterization of routing protocols for WSN as well as the identification of relevant parameter to consider during selection/design. A routing solution for WSN is proposed and validated as main contribution of this paper.