TY - JOUR AU - AB - H.Y., Wong, K.J. and Chong, P.H.J. (2017) Recently, location-based routings in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are at- Location-Based Routing Protocols for Wire- less Sensor Networks: A Survey. Wireless tracting a lot of interest in the research community, especially because of its Sensor Network, 9, 25-72. scalability. In location-based routing, the network size is scalable without in- http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/wsn.2017.91003 creasing the signalling overhead as routing decisions are inherently localized. Received: November 3, 2016 Here, each node is aware of its position in the network through some posi- Accepted: January 20, 2017 tioning device like GPS and uses this information in the routing mechanism. Published: January 23, 2017 In this paper, we first discuss the basics of WSNs including the architecture of the network, energy consumption for the components of a typical sensor Copyright © 2017 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. node, and draw a detailed picture of classification of location-based routing This work is licensed under the Creative protocols. Then, we present a systematic and comprehensive taxonomy of lo- Commons Attribution International cation-based routing protocols, mostly for sensor networks. All the schemes License (CC BY 4.0). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ are subsequently discussed in depth. Finally, we conclude the paper with some TI - Location-Based Routing Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks: A Survey JF - Wireless Sensor Network DO - 10.4236/wsn.2017.91003 DA - 2017-01-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/unpaywall/location-based-routing-protocols-for-wireless-sensor-networks-a-survey-KV0mQS7KtG DP - DeepDyve ER -