Modified Dynamic Source Routing protocol for WSN

During one of my course in Network Protocl, I was given to make an optimized routing protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks. The task was to design a protocol and simulate in Network Simulator 2 (NS2)

So, the best way to thing about a problem is to do a lot fo background study and so I read research papers about protocol design in WSN. The T-MAC and SMAC protocols are quite good and reading the papers helped me to think about a possible solution.

Looking at various routing mechanism, I found that using a reactive i.e. on demand routing protocol is better than a proactive protocol. So, as Dynamic source routing was already implemetned, I modified DSR and introduced Load balancing into it. The source node makes the decision on which route to choose for optimized load balancing. I modified the source code of DSR and implemented my version in NS2. Currently, I am working on data aggregation techniques in my modified DSR. NS2 was used for this project.