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

Table 8

Comparison of protocols.

Protocol	Architecture		Location aware	Multipath	Energy efficiency	Real-time	Congestion control	Load balancing	Reliability	Hole detection/bypassing
	Flat	Clustered
Zhou and Wang [20]	✓				✓	✓
SAR [21]	✓			✓	✓
EAQoS [23]		✓			✓	✓
RAP [25]			✓			✓
SPEED [28]			✓		✓	✓	✓	✓		✓
RPAR [29]			✓		✓	✓	✓			✓
OEDSR [34]		✓		✓	✓	✓
SDRC [37]					✓	✓
AGEM [38]			✓		✓	✓				✓
EQSR [39]				✓	✓				✓
Li and Kim [16]					✓	✓			✓
MMSPEED [31]			✓	✓		✓			✓
DARA [41]			✓	✓	✓	✓			✓
RLTD [42]			✓	✓	✓	✓		✓		✓
LRGR [46]			✓		✓	✓			✓
QMOR [44]					✓	✓			✓
ASAR [53]		✓		✓	✓	✓			✓
M-IAR [51]			✓		✓
ACOLBR [54]		✓		✓		✓	✓			✓
AntNet [14]	✓			✓
ACOWMSN [56]					✓	✓
AntSensNet [57]		✓		✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
HLEAR [60]					✓			✓
AntHQSeN [61]		✓			✓			✓
QOSPSO [63]					✓	✓
ICACR [64]		✓			✓	✓
FROMS [65]	✓
SPEA [66]	✓				✓
BeeSensor [69]	✓
Bee-Sensor-C [72]		✓		✓	✓	✓		✓
EQR-RL [74]	✓
FTIEE [77]		✓			✓	✓		✓	✓
REAR [82]	✓			✓	✓	✓
LEAR [83]	✓			✓	✓			✓	✓	✓
PEMuR [85]		✓			✓			✓
EEQAR [88]		✓			✓			✓
MCRA [48]			✓		✓				✓
TPGF [59]			✓	✓						✓
GEAMS [94]			✓	✓	✓					✓
GPSR [27]			✓		✓
DGR [93]			✓		✓	✓				✓
EA-TPGF [95]			✓	✓	✓					✓
PWDGR [96]			✓	✓	✓	✓