A Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks with Reliable Delivery of Data

Directed diffusion (DD) is a well know routing algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) that was designed in 2003. DD saves energy by sending data packets hop by hop and by enforcing paths to avoid flooding. DD does not do any effort to find the best or healthier path, hence DD can be improved by enforcing healthier paths, which will result in less power consumption since healthier and less nodes will be doing the work. In this paper we are presenting a routing protocol which collects data about the available paths and uses these data to enforce healthier paths.