Sink placement without location information in large-scale wireless sensor networks

Wint Yi Poe, Jens B. Schmitt
2009 Asian Internet Engineering Conference on - AINTEC '09  
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) comprise a large number of sensor nodes that possess scarce energy supplies. To minimize energy consumption and to consequently extend the lifetime of WSNs, we propose a local search technique for sink placement in WSNs. In addition, a proper sink placement plays a vital role in performance-sensitive WSN applications. Since it is not feasible for a sink to use global information, especially for large-scale WSNs, we introduce a self-organized sink placement (SOSP)
more » ... trategy that combines the advantages of our previous works [7] and [8]. Besides, this paper is a substantial extension of [9] . The goal of this research is to provide a better sink placement strategy with a lower communication overhead. Avoiding the costly design of using the nodes' location information, each sink sets up its own group by communicating to its n-hop distance neighbors. While keeping the locally optimal placement, SOSP exhibits a better solution quality with respect to communication overhead and computational effort than previous solutions. To analyze performance issues, especially the worst-case delay of a given WSN, we use a methodology called sensor network calculus [10] .
doi:10.1145/1711113.1711126 dblp:conf/aintec/PoeS09 fatcat:3pf2cv5d3nd5di5qvluh4lrwea