An intelligent agent-based routing structure for mobile sinks in WSNs

Author

Kim, Jae-Wan ; In, Jeong-Sik ; Hur, Kyeong ; Kim, Jin-Woo ; Eom, Doo-Seop

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Comput. Eng., Korea Univ., Seoul, South Korea

Volume

56

Issue

4

fYear

2010

fDate

11/1/2010 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

2310

Lastpage

2316

Abstract

Mobile sink brings new challenges to densely deployed and large wireless sensor networks (WSNs). When the sink moves, frequent location updates from the sink can generate excessive power consumption of sensors. In this paper, we propose IAR, an Intelligent Agent-based Routing protocol that provides efficient data delivery to mobile sink. Proposed algorithm reduces signal overhead and improve degraded route called triangular routing problem. We have evaluated IAR performance through both mathematical analysis and simulation experiments. The results show that our scheme effectively supports sink mobility with low overhead and the improvement of triangular routing problem.

Keywords

mathematical analysis; routing protocols; wireless sensor networks; WSN; data delivery; frequent location; intelligent agent; mathematical analysis; mobile sinks; power consumption; routing protocol; triangular routing problem; wireless sensor networks; Delay; Mobile communication; Protocols; Relays; Routing; Sensors; Wireless sensor networks; Sink Mobility, Agent Data Gathering, Efficient Path Decision, Wireless Sensor Networks;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Consumer Electronics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0098-3063

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TCE.2010.5681105

Filename

5681105