Efficient Data Gathering in Partially Connected and Delay-Tolerant Wireless Sensor Networks

Ruiyun Yu; Qiang Chen; Xingwei Wang; Sajal K. Das

5th International ICST Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness

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Efficient Data Gathering in Partially Connected and Delay-Tolerant Wireless Sensor Networks

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.QSHINE2008.3902,
    author={Ruiyun Yu and Qiang Chen and Xingwei Wang and Sajal K. Das},
    title={Efficient Data Gathering in Partially Connected and Delay-Tolerant Wireless Sensor Networks},
    proceedings={5th International ICST Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness},
    publisher={ICST},
    proceedings_a={QSHINE},
    year={2010},
    month={5},
    keywords={Data gathering Mobile element Sparse sensor networks},
    doi={10.4108/ICST.QSHINE2008.3902}
}

Ruiyun Yu
Qiang Chen
Xingwei Wang
Sajal K. Das
Year: 2010
Efficient Data Gathering in Partially Connected and Delay-Tolerant Wireless Sensor Networks
QSHINE
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/ICST.QSHINE2008.3902

Ruiyun Yu¹^,*, Qiang Chen²^,*, Xingwei Wang²^,*, Sajal K. Das³^,*

1: Computing Center Northeastern University Shenyang 110004, China
2: College of Information Science and Engineering Northeastern University Shenyang 110004, China
3: Department of Computer Science and Engineering The University of Texas at Arlington Arlington, TX 76019, USA

*Contact email: yury@cc.neu.edu.cn, www00a@gmail.com, wangxw@ise.neu.edu.cn, das@cse.uta.edu

Abstract

Sparse sensor networks have emerged in recent studies. Relaying data with the help of mobile elements seems an effective way to bridge the gaps in such networks. In this paper, we propose the Grid-Based Mobile Element Scheduling (GBMES) approach that schedules a mobile element (ME) to periodically gather data from a partially connected sensor network. The GBMES algorithm performs well on avoiding data loss due to buffer overflow of sensor nodes through reducing the traveling delay of ME, and the data transferring delay at each data gathering point.

Keywords: Data gathering Mobile element Sparse sensor networks

Published: 2010-05-16
Publisher: ICST
Modified: 2010-05-16

: http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/ICST.QSHINE2008.3902