Real-Time Communications Over Cluster-Tree Sensor Networks with Mobile Sink Behaviour
RTCSA '08 Proceedings of the 2008 14th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications
A Data Gathering Algorithm for a Mobile Sink in Large-Scale Sensor Networks
ICWMC '08 Proceedings of the 2008 The Fourth International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications
Efficient routing to mobile sinks in wireless sensor networks
WICON '07 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Wireless internet
Maximizing the Lifetime of Wireless Sensor Networks with Mobile Sink in Delay-Tolerant Applications
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
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One of the challenges in wireless sensor network is prolonging the network lifetime for sustaining long-term operation with limited resources. The energy of sensor nodes is mostly utilized for data transmission to the Sink. So many researches have been done about reducing sensor nodes energy consumption. Nonetheless, the most part of such researches have not considered sink travelling time. This paper proposes an approach to maximize the sensor network lifetime using fuzzy sink locations management when the underlying applications tolerate delayed information delivery to the sink. We have considered the time of sink movement between different stations using a sink speed regulator. According to the simulation results, the proposed scheme has increased the residual energy of network and has prolonged network lifetime significantly as compared to all approaches that we know. In addition, simulation results show that the network lifetime increases significantly when the number of sink locations increases. We also show that increasing the delay tolerance level does not affect on the network energy consumption and its lifetime.