2nd International ICST Conference on Scalable Information Systems

Research Article

Convergent SparseDT Topology Control Protocol in Dense Sensor Networks

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/infoscale.2007.228,
        author={Chengdong Jiang and Guoliang Chen},
        title={Convergent SparseDT Topology Control Protocol in Dense Sensor Networks},
        proceedings={2nd International ICST Conference on Scalable Information Systems},
        proceedings_a={INFOSCALE},
        year={2010},
        month={5},
        keywords={Wireless sensor network Topology control Gravitational field Delaunay triangulation Distributed algorithm},
        doi={10.4108/infoscale.2007.228}
    }
    
  • Chengdong Jiang
    Guoliang Chen
    Year: 2010
    Convergent SparseDT Topology Control Protocol in Dense Sensor Networks
    INFOSCALE
    ICST
    DOI: 10.4108/infoscale.2007.228
Chengdong Jiang1,*, Guoliang Chen1,*
  • 1: Department of Computer Science and Technology University of Science and Technology of China Hefei 230027, P.R.China
*Contact email: cdjiang@ustc.edu.cn, glchen@ustc.edu.cn

Abstract

When a sensor network is deployed for monitoring a pro- tected region, topology control is usually used to save en- ergy consumption, especially in a dense deployment. In this paper, we propose a new and simple topology control protocol, Convergent SparseDT, which controls the network density pretty well, and disposes of some important faults of classical topology control protocols while working with dense sensor network. It is a compromise between the en- ergy consumption, network congestion and the area cover- age. It guarantees the coverage of most of the monitored area with almost negligible communication and computing overhead. The performance of this protocol is thoroughly analyzed and simulated in NS2 simulator.