Rehan Waqas, Fischer Stefan, Rehan Maaz
Institute of Telematics (ITM), University of Luebeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, 23562 Luebeck, Germany.
COMSATS Institue of Information Technology (CIIT), Quaid Avenue, 47040 Wah Cantt, Pakistan.
Sensors (Basel). 2017 Jul 26;17(8):1713. doi: 10.3390/s17081713.
A large number of routing-related surveys are published so far for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) that exhibit either complete or partial emphasis on routing in WSNs. These surveys classify and discuss the relevant routing protocols published mainly in the fields of classical, energy efficient, secure, hierarchical, geographic, intelligent, Quality of Service (QoS)-based and multipath WSNs. However, to the best of our knowledge, no study is presented so far which may clearly categorize the routing-related survey literature for WSNs.To fill this gap, an effort is made in this paper for presenting an review of already published routing-related survey literature in WSNs. Our review initially proposes a generalized survey design model and afterwards analyzes the routing-related survey literature in the light of the devised . Such an analysis describes the design soundness of the published routing-related surveys. Therefore, our review puts forth an original classification based on the and taxonomizes the corresponding routing-related fields into high, medium and low focused areas of survey publication in WSNs. Furthermore, the surveys belonging to each main category are sub-categorized into various sub-classes and briefly discussed according to their design characteristics. On the one hand, this review is useful for beginners who may easily explore the already published routing-related survey literature in WSNs in a single document and investigate it by spending less effort. On the other hand, it is useful for expert researchers who may explore the trends and frequency of writing surveys in different areas of routing in WSNs. The experts may explore those areas of routing which are either neglected or least focused or lack in design soundness as per general survey design framework. In the end, insights and future research directions are outlined and a reasonable conclusion is put forth which may outline guiding principles for routing-related survey research in future.
到目前为止，已经发表了大量与无线传感器网络（WSN）路由相关的调查，这些调查要么完全要么部分强调WSN中的路由。这些调查对主要在经典、节能、安全、分层、地理、智能、基于服务质量（QoS）和多路径WSN领域发表的相关路由协议进行了分类和讨论。然而，据我们所知，到目前为止还没有一项研究能够清晰地对WSN中与路由相关的调查文献进行分类。为了填补这一空白，本文致力于对WSN中已发表的与路由相关的调查文献进行综述。我们的综述首先提出了一个通用的调查设计模型，然后根据设计的模型分析与路由相关的调查文献。这样的分析描述了已发表的与路由相关的调查的设计合理性。因此，我们的综述基于该模型提出了一种原创分类，并将相应的与路由相关的领域分类为WSN中调查出版物的高、中、低重点领域。此外，属于每个主要类别的调查被细分为各种子类，并根据其设计特点进行简要讨论。一方面，这篇综述对初学者很有用，他们可以在一份文档中轻松探索WSN中已发表的与路由相关的调查文献，并以较少的精力进行研究。另一方面，它对专家研究人员也很有用，他们可以探索WSN中不同路由领域撰写调查的趋势和频率。专家们可以根据一般调查设计框架探索那些被忽视、关注最少或设计合理性不足的路由领域。最后，概述了见解和未来的研究方向，并提出了一个合理的结论，该结论可能为未来与路由相关的调查研究概述指导原则。
