Review Article

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

Table 5

Flat routing protocols.

Author [paper]YearCharacteristics featuresSuitability for WMSNPerformance metricsType of networkEnergy efficiencyNetwork lifetimePerformance results

Lan et al. [82]2008FlatMediumDelay, REHomogeneousMediumLowOutperforms SAR [21]
Nayyar et al. [83]2011Flat (Multipath)MediumDelay, RE, and RBWHomogeneousHighLowOutperforms AODV [36]

RE: residual energy; RBW: residual bandwidth.