Title
Variable Density Deployment and Topology Control for the Solution of the Sink-Hole Problem
Abstract
The use of mobile sensors is of great relevance to monitor critical areas where sensors cannot be deployed manually. The presence of data collector sinks causes increased energy depletion in their proximity, due to the higher relay load under multi-hop communication schemes (sink-hole phenomenon). We propose a new approach towards the solution of this problem by means of an autonomous deployment algorithm that guarantees the adaptation of the sensor density to the sink proximity and enables their selective activation. The proposed algorithm also permits a fault tolerant and self-healing deployment, and allows the realization of an integrated solution for deployment, dynamic relocation and selective sensor activation. Performance comparisons between our proposal and previous approaches show how the former can efficiently reach a deployment at the desired variable density with moderate energy consumption under a wide range of operative settings.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1007/978-3-642-10625-5_11
Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics, and Telecommunications Engineering
Field
DocType
Volume
Topology,Topology control,Software deployment,Computer science,Data collector,Dual topology,Extension topology,Relay,Sink (computing)
Conference
22
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1867-8211
0
0.34
References 
Authors
13
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Novella Bartolini125021.87
Tiziana Calamoneri251146.80
Annalisa Massini313715.53
S. Silvestri427529.61