T-SNIPER: Trust-Aware Sensor Network Information Protocol for Efficient Routing

This paper presents a new framework called t-SNIPER for sensor node clustering and routing that is based on socio-economic banking model. Unlike other routing protocols, this particular model does not guarantee data transfer and instead focuses more on determining the best route for the transfer to occur. The communication protocol also employs a trust framework to ensure integrity among the nodes. T-SNIPER draws on the features demonstrated in LEACH and HEED, and is assessed against these models to prove some of the benefits of this model using a WSN simulator (WSNSim). The results presented in this paper show how the proposed model can improve network lifetime and also discusses some of the main trade-offs and assumptions.