Routing in Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks: A Survey of Existing Protocols and Open Research Issues

Table 3

Multiconstrained routing protocols.

Author [paper]	Year	Characteristics features	Suitability for WMSN	Performance metrics	Type of network	Energy efficiency	Network lifetime	Performance results
Felemban et al. [31]	2006	Multiconstrained	High	Delay and reliability	Homogeneous	High	Low	Outperforms SPEED [28]
Razzaque et al. [41]	2008	Multiconstrained	High	Delay and reliability	Homogeneous	High	High	Outperforms MMSPEED [31] and MCMP [40]
Ahmed and Fisal [42]	2008	Multiconstrained	High	Delay and LQ	Homogeneous	High	Medium	Outperforms MMSPEED [31] and RTPC [43]
Yan et al. [48]	2009	Multiconstrained	High	Delay, PLR	Homogeneous	Medium	Medium	Outperforms SPEED [28] and DD [49]
Shen et al. [44]	2014	Multiconstrained	High	Delay and reliability	Homogeneous	High	High	Outperforms CAQR [45]
Rao et al. [46]	2013	Multiconstrained	High	Delay and reliability	Homogeneous	Medium	Medium	Outperforms VIBE [47]

LR: packet loss ratio; LQ: link quality.