A lightweight protocol for wireless sensor networks

Wireless sensor networks are widely used in data acquisition frameworks. Unlike conventional networked devices, wireless sensors run on low power energy sources, and have limited memory buffers, minimal computational complexity, and low processing speeds. As such, the complexities involved with conventional network protocols cannot be realized in wireless sensors. A data dissemination protocol for wireless sensor network should be well aware of sensor limitations. In addition, it should also take into consideration, the unique aspects of applications running over wireless sensor networks. In this paper, we propose a new network protocol, Simple Wireless Sensor Protocol (SWSP) for wireless sensors which provides a reliable data communication between wireless sensors with minimum resource overhead.