TY - CONF UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84867923733&doi=10.1109%2fICIAS.2012.6306083&partnerID=40&md5=9798325461dea559c6c1d69940723337 A1 - Khan, W.Z. A1 - Saad, N.M. A1 - Aalsalem, M.Y. VL - 2 EP - 593 Y1 - 2012/// SN - 9781457719677 N1 - cited By 25; Conference of 2012 4th International Conference on Intelligent and Advanced Systems, ICIAS 2012 ; Conference Date: 12 June 2012 Through 14 June 2012; Conference Code:93534 N2 - With the maturity and development of Wireless Sensor Networks, a large body of research is being assembled and several routing protocols have been developed for wireless sensor networks. Routing metric is very important for the performance of wireless sensor networks. But a little attention has been paid by the researchers to the evaluation metrics and design principles for routing protocols that should never be neglected while designing and evaluating routing protocols for wireless sensor networks. This paper depicts some vital evaluation metrics that are essential while designing, developing and evaluating the performance of routing protocols for wireless sensor networks. This research is an effort towards hoarding all the general metrics and guiding the researchers for designing efficient, professional and valuable routing protocols. © 2011 IEEE. KW - Design Principles; Evaluation metrics; Routing metrics KW - Research KW - Routing protocols TI - An overview of evaluation metrics for routing protocols in wireless sensor networks ID - scholars2766 SP - 588 CY - Kuala Lumpur AV - none ER -