Abstract

Wireless sensor network comprises of a set of sensor nodes that communicate among each other using wireless links and work in an open and distributed manner due to which wireless sensor networks are highly prone to attacks. This is difficult to determine the position of the sensor nodes; therefore the sensor network protocols must inculcate self-organizing competence. Location awareness is one of the important concern in WSN because for a network mostly data collection is grounded on location, so this is imperative for all the nodes to know their position whenever it is required and it is also helpful in calculating the distance between two particular nodes to deal with energy consumption issues. This paper focuses on the three location based routing multicast protocols: HGMR, HRMP, GMR and their comparison is done on the basis of different metrics like latency, PDP, encoding overhead etc.