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Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) detect and monitor the outside physical state by the sensor nodes organizing automatically. Clustering is a standard approach for achieving efficient and scalable performance in WSNs. In the applications of analysis topology discovering, geography routing, tracking and so forth, we need to resolve how to search for the boundary nodes and form the network boundary. Different...
How to measure and maintain connectivity is an important issue in ad hoc networks. A special case of such network is Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), which are often deployed in harsh environments and also susceptible to a number of problems that may negatively affect the connectivity among the nodes. An additional factor that increases the cost of connectivity maintenance in ad hoc networks is when...
This paper presents a multi-hop dynamic moving algorithm to repair the coverage holes, while maintaining the initial topology and connectivity, for the wireless sensor networks. In such environment, the movement of each sensor node is fully distributed and autonomous. The proposed algorithm takes the density measures into consideration for determining which node to move and to what direction and distance...
We propose two strategies to reduce energy consumption for secure data aggregation in wireless sensor networks. While the purpose of data aggregation is to reduce energy consumption, secure data aggregation introduces an overhead making the total energy consumption comparable to naive secure non-aggregation. Another aspect is that the secure data aggregation has higher node congestion than non-aggregation...
Geographic routing is one of the most widely used routing strategies in large-scale wireless sensor networks (WSN). With location-based routing, small, cheap and resource constrained nodes can perform the routing function without the need of complex computations and large amount of memory space. In the traditional approach, nodes advertise their availability to update the routing table. We eliminate...
Increasing awareness of energy production evolution and global warming issues have forced regulatory international organizations to supervise energy consumption in different areas. Specifically the energy efficient operation of buildings, consumers of almost a third of the energy produced globally, is to be evaluated by means of specific procedures. The usual methods involve the use of normalized...
We present a novel topology control algorithm for very dense wireless sensor networks that is constrained by a small maximum nodal degree k. Particularly, we limit k = 4 which makes it challenging to formulate a connected network that possesses favorable properties such as a small diameter, short average path length and low energy consumption. Towards this goal, we introduce a graph theoretic approach...
Wireless sensor networks demand the implementation of energy-aware transmission protocols. Recently, cooperative protocols have been suggested for use in sensor networks since they typically require less transmit power than the direct transmission for the same error probability. For sensor networks with short range transmissions, however, the energy consumed in receiving transmissions from cooperative...
Clustering technique is an effective topology control approach which can improve the scalability and lifetime in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). LEACH is a classical clustering algorithm for low energy scheme, however, it still have some deficiencies. This paper studies LEACH protocol, and put an Improved LEACH protocol which has more reasonable set-up phase. In the cluster heads election phase,...
Topology Control (TC) is a well known technique used in wireless ad hoc and sensor networks to reduce energy consumption. This technique coordinates the decisions of network nodes about their transmission power to save energy, prolong network lifetime, and mitigate MAC-level medium contention, while maintaining network connectivity. In order to ease the implementation and the study in systematic way...
In wireless sensor networks, how to efficiently use the energy of the nodes while assigning global unique ID to each node is a challenging problem. By analyzing the communication cost of the clustering and topological features of a sensor network, we present a distributed scheme of Energy Efficient Clustering with Self-organized ID Assignment (EECSIA). In the context of EECSIA, a network first selects...
This work presents the organization and operation of a hopping sensor wireless network. It defines two decentralized algorithms for the discovery of isolated nodes, aggressive and smart discovery, to propagate base station connectivity. Both algorithms rely on the usage of hopping sensors on the boundary of a cluster, without prior topology information. We studied the efficiency of the algorithms...
Recently, the availability of numerous low-cost robotic units (e.g., Packbot, Robomote, and Khepera) has made it possible to massively deploy mobile sensors in a network and use them in a disposable manner. It has been shown that the controlled mobility offered by sensors can be exploited to improve the energy efficiency of a network. In this paper, we study a new problem called max-data mobile relay...
Since the energy constraint is one of the most important restrictions in wireless sensor networks so the issue of energy balancing is essential for prolonging the network lifetime. Hence this problem has been considered as a main challenge in the research of scientific communities. In the recent papers many algorithms have been proposed for clustering on wireless sensor network to balance the energy...
Energy is one of the scarcest resources in Sensor Networks. Though there has been lot of work done in considering energy efficiency and the plausibility of energy harvesting at the level of a single node, seldom has it been discussed at a topology or network level. In this paper we examine the key aspect of energy management in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN's) at a network level. A particular clustering...
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) consist of small nodes with sensing, computation, and wireless communication capabilities. Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is a promising data mining solution for precision agriculture. Instrumented with wireless sensors, it will become available to monitor the plants for real time, such as air temperature, soil water content, and nutrition stress. This real time information...
Clustering is a characteristic method in hierarchical topology controlling in wireless sensor networks. In the paper, we considered the rest of energy of every node in the process of clustering, and proposed an improved clustering algorithm for energy saving. This algorithm is realized by calculating the number of cluster head, choosing the optimal head, decreasing the energy consuming in cluster...
Due to the limited energy of wireless sensor networks (WSN), lots of research works have been done with topology algorithm in WSN. To solve the problem of the unbalanced energy consumption and improve the life circle, this paper proposes an Improved Energy Efficient Unequal Clustering (IEEUC) algorithm based on node degree, the clusters closer to the base station have less members than the farther...
One-to-many (Downstream) transport in wireless sensor networks is illustrated by single node (sink) sending information to a number of sensor nodes. These nodes can be thrown or scattered randomly in the sensor field. Therefore, the topology i.e., density and node arrangement, can be unpredictable in different regions. In this work, we present a new Topology-based Efficient Downstream Communication...
In a wireless sensor network (WSN) with specially deployed cluster heads (CHs), association relation between sensor nodes and the CHs is important as it affects the radio resource allocations, which further determine the overall network throughput, energy consumption, and other performance. In a lot of cases, the CHs are placed in random locations, and strong overlapping may exist between their coverage...
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