Comparative Performance Analysis of Flat and Hierarchical Routing in Wireless Sensor Network

Wireless sensor network is composed of a set of sensors in a wireless network of self-organized. Research on topological structure of wireless sensor network is focused in two directions, namely plane topology structure and hierarchical topology structure. This paper gives a detailed analysis of wireless sensor networks in the flat routing protocols and hierarchical routing protocols, and compares the advantages and disadvantages of the performance of two kinds of protocol by simulation experiment.