Architectural considerations for a new generation of protocols
SIGCOMM '90 Proceedings of the ACM symposium on Communications architectures & protocols
Message Ferrying: Proactive Routing in Highly-Partitioned Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
FTDCS '03 Proceedings of the The Ninth IEEE Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems
A message ferrying approach for data delivery in sparse mobile ad hoc networks
Proceedings of the 5th ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking and computing
VITP: an information transfer protocol for vehicular computing
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM international workshop on Vehicular ad hoc networks
Localized power-aware routing in linear wireless sensor networks
CASEMANS '08 Proceedings of the 2nd ACM international conference on Context-awareness for self-managing systems
WISTP '09 Proceedings of the 3rd IFIP WG 11.2 International Workshop on Information Security Theory and Practice. Smart Devices, Pervasive Systems, and Ubiquitous Networks
Energy-Efficient Node Placement in Linear Wireless Sensor Networks
ICMTMA '10 Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on Measuring Technology and Mechatronics Automation - Volume 02
Monitoring Underwater PIpelines Using Sensor Networks
HPCC '10 Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE 12th International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications
Linear wireless sensor networks: Classification and applications
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
Multiple controlled mobile elements (data mules) for data collection in sensor networks
DCOSS'05 Proceedings of the First IEEE international conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems
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The wireless sensor network (WSN) technology have been evolving very quickly in recent years. Sensors are constantly increasing in sensing, processing, storage, and communication capabilities. In many WSNs that are used in environmental, commercial and military applications, the sensors are lined linearly due to the linear nature of the structure or area that is being monitored making a special class of these networks; We defined these in a previous paper as Linear Sensor Networks (LSNs), and provided a classification of the different types of LSNs. A pure multihop approach to route the data all the way along the linear network (e.g. oil, gas and water pipeline monitoring, border monitoring, road-side monitoring, etc.), which can extend for hundreds or even thousands of kilometers can be very costly from an energy dissipation point of view. In order to significantly reduce the energy consumption used in data transmission and extend the network lifetime, we present a framework for monitoring linear infrastructures using LSNs where data collection and transmission is done using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). The system defines four types of nodes, which include: sensor nodes (SNs), relay nodes (RNs), UAVs, and sinks. The SNs use a classic WSN multihop routing approach to transmit their data to the nearest RN, which acts as a cluster head for its surrounding SNs. Then, a UAV moves back and forth along the linear network and transport the data that is collected by the RNs to the sinks located at both ends of the LSN. We name this network architecture a UAV-based LSNs (ULSNs). This approach leads to considerable savings in node energy consumption, due to a significant reduction of the transmission ranges of the SN and RN nodes and the use of a one-hop transmission to communicate the data from the RNs to the UAV. Furthermore, the strategy provides for reduced interference between the RNs that can be caused by hidden terminal and collision problems, that would be expected if a pure multihop approach is used at the RN level. In addition, three different UAV movement approaches are presented, simulated, and analyzed in order to measure system performance under various network conditions.