Paper Info
Title
An energy efficient distance-aware routing algorithm with multiple mobile sinks for wireless sensor networks.
Abstract
Traffic patterns in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) usually follow a many-to-one model. Sensor nodes close to static sinks will deplete their limited energy more rapidly than other sensors, since they will have more data to forward during multihop transmission. This will cause network partition, isolated nodes and much shortened network lifetime. Thus, how to balance energy consumption for sensor nodes is an important research issue. In recent years, exploiting sink mobility technology in WSNs has attracted much research attention because it can not only improve energy efficiency, but prolong network lifetime. In this paper, we propose an energy efficient distance-aware routing algorithm with multiple mobile sink for WSNs, where sink nodes will move with a certain speed along the network boundary to collect monitored data. We study the influence of multiple mobile sink nodes on energy consumption and network lifetime, and we mainly focus on the selection of mobile sink node number and the selection of parking positions, as well as their impact on performance metrics above. We can see that both mobile sink node number and the selection of parking position have important influence on network performance. Simulation results show that our proposed routing algorithm has better performance than traditional routing ones in terms of energy consumption.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.3390/s140815163
SENSORS
Keywords
Field
DocType
wireless sensor networks,mobile sink,distance aware,energy,lifetime
Network partition,Key distribution in wireless sensor networks,Efficient energy use,Computer network,Engineering,Mobile wireless sensor network,Energy consumption,Wireless sensor network,Sink (computing),Distributed computing,Network performance
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
14
8.0
1424-8220
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
8
0.50
20
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jin Wang180.50
Bin Li280.83
Feng Xia32013153.69
Chang-Seob Kim480.50
Jeong-Uk Kim591.19