WSN Hierarchical Routing Protocol Taxonomy

International audienceRouting protocols in wireless sensor networks are generally focused on hierarchical infrastructures, for energy saving reasons. In this paper, we intend to give a taxonomy of these approaches identifying three criteria of classification: the assumptions, the algorithms and their evaluation. We classify projects based on these parameters and we also draw a uniform view over them, which may provide a basis of comparison for different routing protocols built atop hierarchical WSN infrastructures