Improving Connectivity of Nodes in Mobile WSN
2011 (English)In: Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA), 2011 IEEE International Conference on, Los Alamitos: IEEE Computer Society, 2011, p. 364-371Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
How to measure and maintain connectivity is an important issue in ad hoc networks. A special case of such network is Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), which are often deployed in harsh environments and also susceptible to a number of problems that may negatively affect the connectivity among the nodes. An additional factor that increases the cost of connectivity maintenance in ad hoc networks is when the nodes can move. When it comes to the WSN domain, this aspect is still more problematic, as the often small sensor nodes have in general a limited energy budget, and then should not use too much energy in the management of their connectivity. The goal of this work is to choose a topology for mobile WSN and improve the network connectivity as a whole while considering and influencing the energy consumption among all the nodes in the network. Different network topologies are considered and discussed. After evaluation of the pros and cons of the estimation quality when applied to each studied topology, a clustered hierarchical algorithm was chosen for network deployment. By means of a link estimator and considering different variables, a metric have been defined to estimate the link reliability. As a result, improved network connectivity is reported.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Los Alamitos: IEEE Computer Society, 2011. p. 364-371
Series
International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA), ISSN 1550-445X ; 25
Keywords [en]
ad hoc network;clustered hierarchical algorithm;energy consumption;link estimator;link reliability estimation;mobile WSN;network connectivity;network deployment;network topology;node connectivity;wireless sensor network;mobile ad hoc networks;radio links;telecommunication network reliability;telecommunication network topology;wireless sensor networks;
National Category
Embedded Systems
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-16097DOI: 10.1109/AINA.2011.81ISI: 000299083800048Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-79957757674ISBN: 978-0-7695-4337-6 ISBN: 978-1-61284-313-1 OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hh-16097DiVA, id: diva2:438515
Conference
IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2011), Singapore, Mars 22-25
2011-09-022011-09-022018-03-22Bibliographically approved