Ring Routing: An Energy-Efficient Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks with a Mobile Sink
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, cilt.14, sa.9, ss.1947-1960, 2015 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 14 Sayı: 9
- Basım Tarihi: 2015
- Doi Numarası: 10.1109/tmc.2014.2366776
- Dergi Adı: IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.1947-1960
- Anahtar Kelimeler: data dissemination, distributed routing, energy efficiency, Mobile sinks, mobility, wireless sensor networks
- Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
In a typical wireless sensor network, the batteries of the nodes near the sink deplete quicker than other nodes due to the data traffic concentrating towards the sink, leaving it stranded and disrupting the sensor data reporting. To mitigate this problem, mobile sinks are proposed. They implicitly provide load-balanced data delivery and achieve uniform-energy consumption across the network. On the other hand, advertising the position of the mobile sink to the network introduces an overhead in terms of energy consumption and packet delays. In this paper, we propose Ring Routing, a novel, distributed, energy-efficient mobile sink routing protocol, suitable for time-sensitive applications, which aims to minimize this overhead while preserving the advantages of mobile sinks. Furthermore, we evaluate the performance of Ring Routing via extensive simulations.