Enhancing Wireless Sensor Networks Routing Protocols Based on Cross Layer Interaction

Wireless sensor networks (WSN) aim to develop a smart city based on sensing environment. The routing protocols of WSN are important to transfer the data in smart cities since sensor nodes have limited power and transmission range. The aim of this research is to enhance WSN routing protocols based on proposed cross-layer interaction between physical layer and network layer also a proposed routing table information of wireless sensor nodes is developed to consider the transmission power of neighbor’s nodes to determine the next hop. Cross-layer interaction provides a useful information and effective adaptation for WSN routing protocols. As a result, the proposed routing protocol shows an improvement in network performance when number of intermediate nodes is minimized.