A virtual grid-based real-time data collection algorithm for industrial wireless sensor networks

EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking

Guangjie Han¹  Chuan Zhu¹  Xiaohan Long¹  Sai Zhang¹  Jinfang Jiang¹ 

[1] Department of Internet of Things Engineering, Hohai University;

关键词: Industrial wireless sensor networks;    Data collection;    Mobile sink;    Centrally distributed events;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s13638-018-1140-3

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Abstract Industrial wireless sensor networks (IWSNs) have been widely used in many application scenarios, and data collection is an extremely significant part of IWSNs. Moreover, a mobile sink is widely used in industrial wireless sensor networks to collect sensory data and alleviate the “hot spot” problem effectively. However, usage of a mobile sink introduces some challenges, such as updating of a mobile sink’s location and planning of a mobile sink’s trajectory. Meanwhile, the impact of different distribution types of events on data collection has not been sufficiently valued in designing of data collection algorithm for IWSNs yet. To overcome these challenges, a virtual grid-based real-time data collection algorithm for applications with centrally distributed events (VGDCA-C) is proposed in this paper to gain a reliable data gathering for IWSNs. In the target application scenarios, the events are distributed centrally, so we mainly focus on how to shorten the routing paths and decrease the transmission delay. In our VGDCA-C, a mobile sink can adjust its movement dynamically according to the changes in event areas. The adjustment of a mobile sink movement strategy includes two aspects. The first one is the dynamic adjustment of a mobile sink’s parking time, and the second one denotes the moving toward event area of a mobile sink. Thus, a mobile sink adjusts its location such that it can get closer to the event area. Hence, the total length of routing is getting shorter so that source nodes can upload sensory data faster. Analysis and simulation results show that compared with the existing work, our VGDCA-C increases the network lifetime and decreases transmission delay.

【 授权许可】

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