Optimized Rumor routing algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless Sensor Network is data centric network that works on query reply mechanism with various types of quires. Rumor routing is on of the data centric routing algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks. Literature shows that Rumor routing algorithm is energy efficient than the Ant Colony Optimization, Gossip Routing, Deterministic Flooding and Directed Diffusion. Data centric WSN works has various types of quires that govern the traffic patters of WSN. In our work we have exploited this key feature of Data centric WSN for improving the energy efficiency of Rumor routing algorithm. Based on information requirement, we have classified quires in two parts, instantaneous queries and continuous queries. Using this query classification we have optimized the Rumor routing for different types of traffic patterns. Our simulation result shows significant reduction in energy consumption after applying our optimization over Rumor Routing algorithm which we called Optimized Rumor Routing.