Bouachir, OnsMnaouer, Adel BenTouati, FaridCrescini, Damiano2020-02-092020-02-0920162016Bouachir, O., Ben Mnaouer, A., Touati, F., & Crescini, D. (2016). Opportunistic routing and data dissemination protocol for energy harvesting wireless sensor networks. In 2016 8th IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security, NTMS 2016. https://doi.org/10.1109/NTMS.2016.77924639781509029143http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/NTMS.2016.7792463https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12519/123This conference paper is not available at CUD collection. The version of scholarly record of this conference paper is published in 2016 8th IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS) (2016), available online at: https://doi.org/10.1109/NTMS.2016.7792463.Recent advances in environmental sources harvesting technologies is a promising solution to provide sustainable energy sources for wireless sensor networks (WSN). Renewable energy sources such as solar, thermal and electromagnetic waves constitute viable alternatives to maximize the network lifetime. Therefore, networking software awareness and adaptability to energy availability conditions should translate into innovative supporting features for data gathering, aggregation, routing and dissemination. Thus, it is paramount to develop robust energy harvesting-aware networking platforms that support the above services and guarantee low energy consumption and data integrity in a noisy, constrained environment. In this paper, we present an opportunistic routing and data dissemination protocol for energy harvesting wireless sensor network (EH-WSN) based on cross-layer constructs that allows across the layers synchronization and coordination between the routing protocol and the application layer services. The OMNET++ based extensive simulation of this protocol showed promising results in terms of meeting application requirements of handling urgent traffic and delay tolerant traffic seamlessly and ensuring energy usage efficiency. © 2016 IEEE.enPermission to reuse abstract has been secured from Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.Electromagnetic wavesEnergy efficiencyEnergy harvestingEnergy utilizationEnvironmental technologyInternet protocolsLow power electronicsNetwork routingPower management (telecommunication)Renewable energy resourcesRouting protocolsApplication requirementsCross-layer designData aggregationData dissemination protocolsLow energy consumptionOpportunistic routingRenewable energy sourceSustainable energy sourcesWireless sensor networks (WSN)Conference PaperCopyright : 2016 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.