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In this work, proposed metrics that influence energy consumption are used for a performance comparison among our proposed routing protocol, called Multi-Parent Hierarchical (MPH), the well-known protocols for sensor networks, Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector (AODV), Dynamic Source Routing (DSR), and Zigbee Tree Routing (ZTR), all of them working with the IEEE 802.15.4 MAC layer. Results show how some communication metrics affect performance, throughput, reliability and energy consumption. It can be concluded that MPH is an efficient protocol since it reaches the best performance against the other three protocols under evaluation, such as 19.3% reduction of packet retransmissions, 26.9% decrease of overhead, and 41.2% improvement on the capacity of the protocol for recovering the topology from failures with respect to AODV protocol. We implemented and tested MPH in a real network of 99 nodes during ten days and analyzed parameters as number of hops, connectivity and delay, in order to validate our Sensors 2014, 14 22812 simulator and obtain reliable results. Moreover, an energy model of CC2530 chip is proposed and used for simulations of the four aforementioned protocols, showing that MPH has 15.9% reduction of energy consumption with respect to AODV, 13.7% versus DSR, and 5% against ZTR.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s141222811","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2014,12,2]],"date-time":"2014-12-02T10:57:54Z","timestamp":1417517874000},"page":"22811-22847","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":16,"title":["On the MAC\/Network\/Energy Performance Evaluation of Wireless Sensor Networks: Contrasting MPH, AODV, DSR and ZTR Routing Protocols"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Carolina","family":"Del-Valle-Soto","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tecnol\u00f3gico de Monterrey, Ave. Eugenio Garza Sada #2501 Sur, Monterrey NL, 64849, Mexico"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Carlos","family":"Mex-Perera","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tecnol\u00f3gico de Monterrey, Ave. Eugenio Garza Sada #2501 Sur, Monterrey NL, 64849, Mexico"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Aldo","family":"Orozco-Lugo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Center for Research and Advanced Studies of IPN, Communications Section, Av. 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