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Sensors 2012, 12, 3964-3996; doi:10.3390/s120403964 OPEN ACCESS sensors ISSN 1424-8220 /journal/sensors Review An Overview of Data Routing Approaches for Wireless Sensor Networks Mohammad Hossein Anisi *, Abdul Hanan Abdullah, Shukor Abd Razak and Md. Asri Ngadi Department of Computer Systems and Communications, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Johor 81310, Malaysia; E-Mails: hanan@utm.my (A.H.A.); shukorar@utm.my (S.A.R); dr.asri@utm.my (M.A.N.) * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: anisi@live.utm.my. Received: 13 February 2012; in revised form: 12 March 2012 / Accepted: 16 March 2012 / Published: 27 March 2012 Abstract: Recent years have witnessed a growing interest in deploying large populations of microsensors that collaborate in a distributed manner to gather and process sensory data and deliver them to a sink node through wireless communications systems. Currently, there is a lot of interest in data routing for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) due to their unique challenges compared to conventional routing in wired networks. In WSNs, each data routing approach follows a specific goal (goals) according to the application. Although the general goal of every data routing approach in WSNs is to extend the network lifetime and every approach should be aware of the energy level of the nodes, data routing approaches may focus on one (or some) specific goal(s) depending on the application. Thus, existing approaches can be categorized according to their routing goals