| In this Thesis, a fault-tolerant protocol for fast and robust propagation of information in sensor networks has been proposed. The proposed protocol is of data-centric type of routing in the sensor networks and in addition to it, our protocol has been shown to offer better bandwidth utilization as well as faster delivery of information in sensor networks than some noted existing works. Fault-tolerance offers robust data delivery to the sink by the deployed sensor nodes, where the sink sensor serves as the gateway node to the external environment. Finally the possibilities of further improvements of the proposed protocol are explored and outlined in a separate chapter so that the protocol can be extended for faster and reliable routing in any ambient conditions related to the environment surrounding the sensor. |
