RESEARCH ARTICLE
Comprehensive survey of routing protocols for Mobile
Wireless Sensor Networks
Asmaa Rady1 |1 of 30
https://doi.org/10.1002/dac.4942
can be occurred by attaching a mobile element to the transportation such as animals, vehicles, robots, or attending it
with a mobilizer to control their locations.3
Some real-world applications require mobile and static sensor node environments in the same network, whereas
other applications demand full mobile sensor environments.4 As shown in Figure 1, many real-world applications are
utilized MWSNs such as environmental monitoring, military applications, the intelligent homes design, security monitoring, search and rescue, life habit monitoring, patient status monitoring, battlefield evaluation, earthquake monitoring, forest fire monitoring, deep-sea monitoring, target tracking, precision agriculture, community security, monitoring
systems, industrial control, specifically in mobile forest fire alert systems, wearable medical, large-scale agricultural
applications, and the nuclear radiation environment for safety monitoring systems.5 Many applications demand achieving coverage.Nariman Abdel-Salam2
1
Electronics and Electrical
Communications Department, Faculty of
Electronic Engineering, Menoufia
University, Menouf, Egypt
2
Electronics and Electrical
Communications Department, Faculty of
Engineering, Canadian International
College (CIC), Giza, Egypt
Correspondence
Nariman Abdel-Salam Bauomy,
Department of Electronics and
Communications Engineering, Faculty of
Engineering, Canadian International
College (CIC), Giza, Egypt.Email: nariman_abdelsalam@cic-cairo.com
Summary
Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks (MWSNs) have emerged as a new evolution
trend in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) technology as a result of the
growth and popularization of mobile terminal technology.INTRODUCTION
Due to the rapid growth of mobile terminal technology applications and mobile Internet technology, Mobile Wireless
Sensor Networks (MWSNs) have emerged as a new trend in the advancement of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs).KEYWORDS
delay, Mobile sensor nodes (MSNs), Mobile sink (MS), Mobile wireless sensor networks
(MWSNs), network lifetime, routing protocols
1 |WSNs' feature spectrum is greatly expanded by the mobility of nodes introduced by MWSNs.Moreover,
the commercial software programs for MWSNs are discussed.