DYMO as routing protocol for IEEE-802.15.4 enabled Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is an emerging field of engineering with various applications. They have emerged as a new class of large scale networks of embedded systems with limited communication, computation and energy resources. Recently adopted IEEE 802.15.4 standards for Low-rate Wireless Personal Area Network (LR-WPAN) are most extensively used communication platform for WSNs. Conventional routing in IEEE 802.15.4 networks is based on Ad hoc On-demand Distance Vector (AODV) which facilitates the building of mesh networks for data dissemination. The Dynamic MANET On-demand (DYMO) routing protocol is a simple and fast routing protocol which is still in its internet draft and is in its 21^st version. It is designed basically for multi-hop ad-hoc networks. In this paper we present a performance evaluation of DYMO routing protocols for IEEE-802.15.4 enabled WSNs. The performance of routing protocols is carried out base upon average energy consumption, average throughput, average end to end delay and average battery consumption and is compared with presently used AODV.