A Survey on Opportunistic Routing Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks

Opportunistic routing is a new paradigm in routing for wireless sensor network which chooses the node closest to the target node for forwarding the data. It uses the broadcasting nature of wireless sensor networks. Opportunistic routing has increased the efficiency, throughput and reliability of sensor networks. Many energy saving techniques has been introduced using opportunistic routing in wireless sensor networks for increasing the network lifetime. In this article we have elaborated the basic concept of Opportunistic routing, different areas in which it has been claimed to be beneficial, some protocols their metrics and their drawbacks.