A Review on Broadcasting Protocols for Duty-Cycled Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

Developments in Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) technology have brought about a substantial number of applications. A basic issue in WSNs is most sensors are outfitted with limited-powered batteries because of which the lifetime of those nodes are short and limited. One of the solutions for this problem is Duty Cycle (DC) scheme which can save the node s energy by proposing active/sleep periods. However, because of this DC scheme network has to face more additional problems such as- transmission delay, low delivery rate, increasing number of transmission in case of broadcasting command to other nodes of the network etc. Many researches have been done in this field for solving those issues and many more are still going on. In this paper, we have focused on the current progresses in Broadcasting protocols for DC-WSNs.