Paper Info
Title
Identifying the Boundary of a Wireless Sensor Network with a Mobile Sink
Abstract
This paper summarizes an effort to evaluate the usability of a mobile sink for identifying the boundary of a wireless sensor network. In order to achieve the desired task we transform the problem of boundary identification into one of edge node identification. The algorithm designed is based on a mobile sink equipped with a directional antenna, which identifies the edge nodes and connects them to complete the boundary of the sensor field. The proposed scheme has following distinct features. Firstly, it is independent of the sensor node deployment, and therefore can be used for fields having very low node density. Secondly, it does not require sensor field flooding which helps preserving the nodes' energy. Thirdly, it works with low cost sensor nodes, i.e., it does not impose any special requirements on the hardware of individual sensor nodes (no GPS, no special antennas, etc.), which makes it cost effective.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1007/978-3-540-85209-4_29
ADHOC-NOW
Keywords
Field
DocType
mobile sink,boundary identification,wireless sensor network,edge node identification,low cost sensor node,sensor node deployment,sensor field flooding,edge node,sensor field,individual sensor node,cost effectiveness,directional antenna,algorithm design
Sensor node,Key distribution in wireless sensor networks,Computer science,Visual sensor network,Computer network,Brooks–Iyengar algorithm,Global Positioning System,Directional antenna,Mobile wireless sensor network,Wireless sensor network,Distributed computing
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
5198
0302-9743
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.40
12
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Majid I. Khan11335.35
Wilfried N. Gansterer231135.07
Günter Haring327335.87