A hybrid protocol for wireless sensor network

Two existing well-established routing protocols in wireless sensor network - Directed Diffusion and Rumor Routing use two different notions lying in the opposite extreme from each other. Directed Diffusion initiates the protocol from the sink, which propagates interest messages through the network in search of a matching event. In contrast, nodes themselves propagate the rumor of an event in Rumor Routing. In this work, I present a hybrid protocol, which seeks a balance between these two concepts. This protocol is also adaptive and distributed in nature.