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A Competitive Multipath Routing Protocol for delay-sensitive applications in Wireless Sensor Networks

Kwansoo Jung

http://doi.org/10.5626/JOK.2018.45.6.589

The key performance of various data delivery applications studied in wireless sensor networks is the timeliness and reliability of transmission. Both performances may be required simultaneously depending on the type of application and information. However, because of the limited nature of resources in wireless sensor networks, these requirements are not easy to meet. One way to overcome this problem is by multipath routing method. Traditional multi-path routing protocols exploit a method of generating additional independent paths or branching an existing path to satisfy the required performance. These methods can waste too many network resources in an irregular network environment. In order to solve this problem, this paper proposes an energy-efficient multipath routing method that can satisfy the requirement of emergency application by using the competition and cooperation between paths in irregular wireless sensor networks. Finally, this paper compares and analyzes the routing performance of the proposed method by means of simulation.

Improved Real-time Transmission Scheme using Temporal Gain in Wireless Sensor Networks

Taehun Yang, Hyunchong Cho, Sangdae Kim, Cheonyong Kim, Sang-Ha Kim

http://doi.org/10.5626/JOK.2017.44.10.1062

Real-time transmission studies in wireless sensor networks propose a mechanism that exploits a node that has a higher delivery speed than the desired delivery speed in order to satisfy real-time requirement. The desired delivery speed cannot guarantee real-time transmission in a congested area in which none of the nodes satisfy the requirement in one hop because the desired delivery speed is fixed until the packet reaches the sink. The feature of this mechanism means that the packet delivery speed increases more than the desired delivery speed as the packet approaches closer to the sink node. That is, the packet can reach the sink node earlier than the desired time. This paper proposes an improved real-time transmission by controlling the delivery speed using the temporal gain which occurs on the packet delivery process. Using the received data from a previous node, a sending node calculates the speed to select the next delivery node. The node then sends a packet to a node that has a higher delivery speed than the recalculated speed. Simulation results show that the proposed mechanism in terms of the real-time transmission success ratio is superior to the existing mechanisms.

A Real-time Multicasting Protocol using Time Deadline in Wireless Sensor Networks

Cheonyong Kim, Taehun Yang, Sangdae Kim, Hyunchong Cho, Sang-Ha Kim

http://doi.org/

Real-time multicasting is a packet transmission scheme ensuring that multiple destinations receive a packet within the desired time line. In wireless sensor networks, a packet can be delivered to a limited distance under a given deadline, since the end-to-end delay tends to be proportional to the end-to-end physical distance. Existing real-time multicasting protocols select the distance between the source and the furthest destination as the distance limitation and construct a multicasting tree guaranteeing delivery paths to each destination within the distance limitation. However, the protocols might lead to real-time delivery failures and energy efficiency degradation due to the fixed distance limitation. In this study, we proposed a real-time multicasting protocol using time deadline. The proposed protocol obtains the maximum transmittable distance with a given time deadline and subsequently constructs a multicasting tree using the maximum transmittable distance. The form of the multicasting tree varies according to the given time deadline to trade off the energy efficiency against the real-time delivery success ratio. The simulation results showed that the proposed scheme is superior to the existing protocols in terms of energy efficiency and real-time delivery success ratio under various time deadlines.

Local Grid-based Multipath Routing Protocol for Mobile Sink in Wireless Sensor Networks

Taehun Yang, Sangdae Kim, Hyunchong Cho, Cheonyong Kim, Sang-Ha Kim

http://doi.org/

A multipath routing in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) provides advantage such as reliability improvement and load balancing by transmitting data through divided paths. For these reasons, existing multipath routing protocols divide path appropriately or create independent paths efficiently. However, when the sink node moves to avoid hotspot problem or satisfy the requirement of the applications, the existing protocols have to reconstruct multipath or exploit foot-print chaining mechanism. As a result, the existing protocols will shorten the lifetime of a network due to excessive energy consumption, and lose the advantage of multipath routing due to the merging of paths. To solve this problem, we propose a multipath creation and maintenance scheme to support the mobile sink node. The proposed protocol can be used to construct local grid structure with restricted area and exploit grid structure for constructing the multipath. The grid structure can also be extended depending on the movement of the sink node. In addition, the multipath can be partially reconstructed to prevent merging paths. Simulation results show that the proposed protocol is superior to the existing protocols in terms of energy efficiency and packet delivery ratio.

Energy-aware Selective Compression Scheme for Solar-powered Wireless Sensor Networks

Min Jae Kang, Semi Jeong, Dong Kun Noh

http://doi.org/

Data compression involves a trade-off between delay time and data size. Greater delay times require smaller data sizes and vice versa. There have been many studies performed in the field of wireless sensor networks on increasing network life cycle durations by reducing data size to minimize energy consumption; however, reductions in data size result in increases of delay time due to the added processing time required for data compression. Meanwhile, as energy generation occurs periodically in solar energy-based wireless sensor networks, redundant energy is often generated in amounts sufficient to run a node. In this study, this excess energy is used to reduce the delay time between nodes in a sensor network consisting of solar energy-based nodes. The energy threshold value is determined by a formula based on the residual energy and charging speed. Nodes with residual energy below the threshold transfer data compressed to reduce energy consumption, and nodes with residual energy above the threshold transfer data without compression to reduce the delay time between nodes. Simulation based performance verifications show that the technique proposed in this study exhibits optimal performance in terms of both energy and delay time compared with traditional methods.

Cluster-based Energy-aware Data Sharing Scheme to Support a Mobile Sink in Solar-Powered Wireless Sensor Networks

Hong Seob Lee, Jun Min Yi, Jaeung Kim, Dong Kun Noh

http://doi.org/

In contrast with battery-based wireless sensor networks (WSNs), solar-powered WSNs can operate for a longtime assuming that there is no hardware fault. Meanwhile, a mobile sink can save the energy consumption of WSN, but its ineffective movement may incur so much energy waste of not only itself but also an entire network. To solve this problem, many approaches, in which a mobile sink visits only on clustering-head nodes, have been proposed. But, the clustering scheme also has its own problems such as energy imbalance and data instability. In this study, therefore, a cluster-based energy-aware data-sharing scheme (CE-DSS) is proposed to effectively support a mobile sink in a solar-powered WSN. By utilizing the redundant energy efficiently, CE-DSS shares the gathered data among cluster-heads, while minimizing the unexpected black-out time. The simulation results show that CE-DSS increases the data reliability as well as conserves the energy of the mobile sink.

An Energy-Aware Cooperative Communication Scheme for Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks

Jeong-Oh Kim, Hyunduk Kim, Wonik Choi

http://doi.org/

Numerous clustering schemes have been proposed to increase energy efficiency in wireless sensor networks. Clustering schemes consist of a hierarchical structure in the sensor network to aggregate and transmit data. However, existing clustering schemes are not suitable for use in wireless multimedia sensor networks because they consume a large quantity of energy and have extremely short lifetime. To address this problem, we propose the Energy-Aware Cooperative Communication (EACC) method which is a novel cooperative clustering method that systematically adapts to various types of multimedia data including images and video. An evaluation of its performance shows that the proposed method is up to 2.5 times more energy-efficient than the existing clustering schemes.

A Congestion Control Scheme Considering Traffic in Large-Scale Wireless Sensor Networks

Moon-Sang Kwak, Young Sik Hong

http://doi.org/

Large-scale wireless sensor networks are constructed by using a large number of sensor nodes that are non-uniformly deployed over a wide area. As a result, the data collected by the sensor nodes are similar to that from one another since a high density of the sensor nodes may cause an overlap. As a result of the characteristics of the traffic, data is collected from a plurality of sensor nodes by a sink node, and when the sensor nodes transmit their collected data to the sink node, the sensor nodes around the sink node have a higher amount of traffic than the sensor nodes far away from the sink node. Thus, the former sensor encounter bottlenecks due to traffic congestion and have an energy hole problem more often than the latter ones, increasing energy consumption. This paper proposes a congestion control scheme that considers traffic flows in order to control traffic congestion of the sensor nodes that are non-uniformly deployed over a large-scale wireless sensor network.

An Energy-Efficient Location Update Scheme for Mobile Sinks in Continuous Object Detection Using Wireless Sensor Networks

Cheonyong Kim, Hyunchong Cho, Sangdae Kim, Sang-Ha Kim

http://doi.org/

A continuous object is large phenomenon diffusing continuously. Therefore, a large number of sources is a major problem in researches for continuous object. Existing studies for continuous object detecting focus on reducing communication cost generated by the sources. But, they only deal with the static sink located in fixed position. In this paper, we propose the location update scheme for mobile sinks in continuous object detecting. Generally, to receive data, a mobile sink should notice its current location to sources. Previous studies for location update of mobile sinks consider individual object. So they need a lot of energy for location update when a mobile sink notices its current location toward many sources of a continuous object independently. Proposed scheme exploits regional locality of the sources involved one continuous object. The regional locality makes the location update of mobile sinks efficient. Our simulation results show that the proposed scheme superior to existing schemes in terms of energy efficiency.


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