# A Survey on an Energy-Efficient and Energy-Balanced Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
## 2 Related Work
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**Year** & **Survey Paper** & **Contributions** \\ \hline
2011 & [35] & Provided a survey on energy-efficient routing protocols for WMSNs. \\  & & Defined the design challenges and limitations of energy-efficient routing protocols for WMSNs. \\  & & & Controlled Classified the energy-efficient routing protocols for WMSNs based on some metrics such as QoS requirement, data delivery model. \\ \hline
2011 & [36] & Provided a survey on swarm intelligence-based routing protocols for WSNs. \\  & & & Discussed the general principles and applications of swarm intelligence-based routing for WSNs. \\  & & & Proposed a taxonomy to classify swarm intelligence-based routing protocols for WSNs. \\ \hline
2011 & [14] & Provided a survey on energy-efficient clustering routing protocols for heterogeneous WSNs. \\  & & & Compared fifteen routing protocols based on the clustering method, clustering attributes, location-awareness, and heterogeneity level. \\ \hline
2012 & [39] & Classified clustering routing protocols based on their objectives and methods. \\  & & & Provided a taxonomy to the studied clustering routing protocols. \\  & & & Discussed the strengths and weaknesses of the techniques used in the studied clustering routing protocols. \\  & & & Summarises the issues and solutions of the attributes and characteristics of clustering approaches. \\ \hline
2012 & [15] & Presented the advantages and applications of clustering techniques for WSNs. \\  & & & Introduced a taxonomy to classify clustering routing protocols for WSNs. \\  & & & Compared different clustering routing protocols based on measures such as scalability, energy efficiency, cluster stability, load balancing. \\ \hline
2012 & [37] & Classified energy-efficient routing protocols into three categories, stating their strengths and weaknesses. \\  & & & Explained the areas of application of different energy-efficient routing protocols. \\ \hline
2012 & [16] & Discussed the notion and challenges of multipath routing protocols for WSNs. \\  & & & Classified the surveyed multipath routing protocols while outlining their pros and cons. \\  & & & Summarised the surveyed multipath routing protocols based on their network applications. \\ \hline
2012 & [17] & Classified multipath routing protocols for WSNs into infrastructure-based, non-infrastructure-based, and coding-based. \\  & & & Explained the evaluation metric, objectives, and challenges in designing a multipath routing protocols for WSNs. \\ \hline
2013 & [18] & Investigated the advantages of different multipath routing protocols for WSNs. \\  & & & Classified different multipath routing protocols for WSNs based on their features. \\ \hline
2013 & [4] & Provided a survey on energy-efficient routing protocols for WSNs. \\  & & & Classified energy-efficient routing protocols for WSNs based on the topology, communication model, network structure, and reliable routing schemes \\  & & & Compared different energy-efficient routing protocols for WSNs, stating their advantages and disadvantages. \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
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Table 1: Cont.