Energy-conserving dynamic routing in multi-sink heterogeneous sensor networks

Yunyue Lin, Qishi Wu

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Abstract

The success of various sensor network applications highly depends on the use of energy-conserving routing methods to prolong network lifetime. We present a heterogeneous sensor network architecture consisting of a small number of high-end sensors serving as sink nodes and a large number of low-end sensors responsible for environmental sensing. We propose a path bottleneck-oriented and energy cost-based routing scheme that uses a multi-objective function to optimize the balance of network-wide energy consumption. Within this routing scheme, we design (i) a centralized version for sensor networks with global topology information, (ii) a semi-distributed version to further improve energy efficiency, and (iii) a fully distributed version to support large-scale sensor networks. Extensive simulation results show that the proposed routing scheme outperforms existing routing algorithms in prolonging the lifetime of sensor networks.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2010 WRI International Conference on Communications and Mobile Computing, CMC 2010
Pages269-273
Number of pages5
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010
Externally publishedYes
Event2010 International Conference on Communications and Mobile Computing, CMC 2010 - Shenzhen, China
Duration: Apr 12 2010Apr 14 2010

Publication series

Name2010 WRI International Conference on Communications and Mobile Computing, CMC 2010
Volume3

Other

Other2010 International Conference on Communications and Mobile Computing, CMC 2010
Country/TerritoryChina
CityShenzhen
Period4/12/104/14/10

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Keywords

  • Dynamic routing
  • Multi-sink sensor networks
  • Network lifetime

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