Load Balancing Algorithms and Protocols to Enhance Quality of Service and Performance in Data of WSN

Abstract

Load balancing becomes one of the most important issues due to increased operations of a huge number of nodes on the networks in a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) that cause performance drawbacks and low service quality. Load balancing techniques are divided into two subsections since this technology can be deployed in protocol layers as well as an algorithm. The most critical question to evaluate proposed load balancing mechanism interims of specific performance metrics was based on a deployment state since the lightweight load balancers were deployed as a protocol while algorithms were only modifications on specific network layers. This chapter elaborates the variety of up-to-date load balancing algorithms and protocols proposed by researchers to enhance quality of service (QoS) and performance in wireless sensor networks.