Data management within WSN through multi-hop transmissions

  • Authors:
  • Sami J. Habib;Paulvanna Nayaki Marimuthu

  • Affiliations:
  • Kuwait University, Safat Kuwait;Kuwait University, Safat Kuwait

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In this paper, we have proposed an energy constrained algorithm which selects direct transmission or multi-hop transmissions based on the residual energy level of the transmitting sensor node. The sensors with higher energy levels can directly transmit their collected data to the base stations, while the sensors with low energy level can employ a two-hop transmission to reach the base stations. Our proposed data management algorithm rules out the selection of hotspot sensors, which are located closer to the base stations, as the intermediate sensors to avoid the dying (battery run out) of these nodes. The proposed data management algorithm selects one of the neighborhood nodes having minimal Euclidean distance and maximum energy level as the intermediate node for transmission. We have also added constraints to avoid the repeatability in the selection of neighborhood sensors. We have utilized as soon as possible (ASAP) and as late as possible (ALAP) scheduling algorithms in combination with the proposed data management algorithm to manage the data collection from the sensors to the base station. The simulation results show that the proposed data management algorithm performs better in reducing the energy consumption and waiting time of the selected sensors compared to the direct transmission.