基于移动机器人的无线传感器网络数据收集方法

稀疏无线传感器网络中各传感器节点距离较远,而传统的静态数据收集方法要求各传感器节点直接通信,导致网络延迟时间长,能耗高。针对该问题,提出一种基于移动机器人的无线传感器数据收集方法。该方法首先由静态节点选择与路径最短的移动机器人作为簇头,移动机器人比较一定周期内检测到的邻居节点的平均剩余能量与整个网络传感器节点平均剩余能量,根据比较结果决定其是否移动,若移动则采用范围可控的随机移动策略;当移动机器人移动到新位置时,传感器节点更新路由,选择新的移动机器人作为簇头。仿真结果表明,与传统的静态无线传感器网络数据收集方法相比,基于移动机器人的无线传感器网络数据收集方法大大降低了数据传输延迟和节点能量消耗。     

无线传感器网络中移动目标的定位与跟踪

对侵入无线传感器网络中的目标,提出了一种移动节点和静态节点相结合的定位与跟踪方式.静态节点可以发现侵入传感器网络中的目标,移动节点与静态节点配合进一步确定目标的具体位置.仿真实验验证表明:该方法可以减少大规模的频繁移动节点,不需要过多地对移动节点的选择和运动进行特别复杂的计算,具有较好的定位精度和鲁棒性,对多目标的定位与跟踪研究有一定的启发作用.     

Mobility-assisted minimum connected cover in a wireless sensor network

All properties of mobile wireless sensor networks (MWSNs) are inherited from static wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and meanwhile have their own uniqueness and node mobility. Sensor nodes in these networks monitor different regions of an area of interest and collectively present a global overview of monitored activities. Since failure of a sensor node leads to loss of connectivity, it may cause a partitioning of the network. Adding mobility to WSNs can significantly increase the capability of the WSN by making it resilient to failures, reactive to events, and able to support disparate missions with a common set of sensor nodes. In this paper, we propose a new algorithm based on the divide-and-conquer approach, in which the whole region is divided into sub-regions and in each sub-region the minimum connected sensor cover set is selected through energy-aware selection method. Also, we propose a new technique for mobility assisted minimum connected sensor cover considering the network energy. We provide performance metrics to analyze the performance of our approach and the simulation results clearly indicate the benefits of our new approach in terms of energy consumption, communication complexity, and number of active nodes over existing algorithms.     

一种移动终端辅助的传感器网络数据收集协议

提出了一种利用具有传感器通信接口的移动终端设备（如手机、手提电脑、个人数字助理等）进行辅助数据获取的传感器网络数据收集协议。网络中固定汇聚节点与移动终端共存,全部传感器节点都维护到固定汇聚节点的路由,移动终端进入网络后定期向其附近小范围内的传感器节点扩散自己的存在信息,传感器节点向距自己跳数最小的汇聚节点或移动终端发送或转发数据包,移动终端和传感器节点之间通过应答和重传的机制来保证数据的可靠传输。仿真研究证明,该协议在延长网络生存时间的同时可以获得较高的数据传输成功率和较短的数据传输延迟,而且可靠性、灵活性、可扩展性较强。     

基于虚拟力的混合感知网节点部署

感知网一般是由静态的或移动的节点组成,为保证感知网的感知功能,节点应该有自部署和自修复能力.然而全部由移动传感器组成的感知网的成本太高,为保证感知网的覆盖功能和低成本,提出了一种在静态传感器节点中加入移动传感器节点的混合感知网形式.为了更好地部署这些节点,最大化覆盖待感知区域,提出了一种基于节点间虚拟力的移动节点部署方法,利用静态节点和移动节点以及移动节点之间的虚拟人工势场产生的作用力来控制移动节点的运动,使移动节点能够在较短的时间内,以较少的能量消耗到达自己合适的位置.在理论上分析了算法的可行性,用仿真实验验证了此算法的有效性,并和其他3种类似算法进行了性能比较.     

一种混合异构传感网的覆盖洞修补算法

传感网感知节点部署的随机性以及节点能耗殆尽、损坏退出等问题使网络中存在覆盖洞, 利用移动节点来修补覆盖空洞是当前较为可行的方法. 假定网络在静态节点和移动节点处混合, 并且在节点感知半径异构的情况下,研究如何通过移动节点重定位来修复感知覆盖洞, 同时兼顾移动距离或能耗最小以及修复后的感知覆盖率最大化来优化感知覆盖性能. 针对移动节点覆盖洞修补规划的NP-hard 问题, 结合遗传算法, 提出一种覆盖洞修补算法来求解最优解. 仿真实验结果表明, 所提出的算法相比于同类算法能够更有效地修补漏洞并兼顾节点能耗以及感知覆盖率.

     

移动传感器k栅栏覆盖研究

在随机部署的无线静态传感器网络中,为保证监控区域的栅栏覆盖而需要大量的节点,从而导致节点之间覆盖区域相互重叠,产生覆盖冗余。通过利用移动传感器节点重部署的能力,可以使用少量的节点保证监控区域的栅栏覆盖。针对1栅栏覆盖问题,提出了基于集中式再部署算法CBarrier的改进算法MCBarrier。通过将监控区域划分为若干片段区域,分别进行栅栏覆盖,并设计基于分治算法的k栅栏覆盖构建算法kMCBarrier。实验表明:MCBarrier算法与kMCBarrier算法能量高效的实现栅栏覆盖,且kMCBarrie算法具有良好的扩展性。     

A grid-based coverage approach for target tracking in hybrid sensor networks

Most existing work on the coverage problem of wireless sensor networks focuses on improving the coverage of the whole sensing field. In target tracking, the interested coverage area is the emerging region of a motorized target, not the whole sensing field. As the motorized target moves, the emerging region is also dynamically changed. In this paper, we propose a grid-based and distributed approach for providing large coverage for a motorized target in a hybrid sensor network. The large coverage is achieved by moving mobile sensor nodes in the network. To minimize total movement cost, the proposed approach needs to solve the following problems: the minimum number of mobile sensor nodes used for healing coverage holes and the best matching between mobile sensor nodes and coverage holes. In the proposed approach, the above two problems are first transformed into the modified circle covering and minimum cost flow problems, respectively. Then, two polynomial-time algorithms are presented to efficiently solve these two modified graph problems, respectively. Finally, we perform simulation experiments to show the effectiveness of proposed approach in providing the coverage for a motorized target in a hybrid sensor network.     

基于距离的无线传感器网络覆盖洞修复方法

针对静态无线传感器网络中经常出现的覆盖洞问题,在基于移动节点的三角形逐个贴补算法的基础上,将已经确定位置的移动节点加入算法进行改进,并根据几何原理指导下一个移动节点移动到最佳位置。仿真结果表明:改进后的算法以更少的移动节点修复覆盖洞,并提高了覆盖度和网络性能。     

基于局部信息的移动感知网覆盖方法*

移动感知网是一个由许多带有传感器的自主移动机器人组成的分布式传感器网络。为了更好地部署这些移动机器人节点,形成最大化覆盖感知区域,提出了一种基于机器人局部信息的分布式感知网覆盖方法。每个节点利用与邻居节点之间的虚拟人工势场产生的虚拟作用力来控制移动节点的运动和节点间的避碰,使移动节点能够在允许的时间内,以较少的能量消耗移动到各自理想的位置。采用李亚普诺夫函数进行了感知网节点势场梯度的理论分析,用计算机仿真实验验证了该方法的有效性,并与模拟退火算法进行了性能比较。     

Time-optimized contextual information forwarding in mobile sensor networks

We study on the forwarding of quality contextual information in mobile sensor networks (MSNs). Mobile nodes form ad-hoc distributed processing networks that produce accessible and quality-stamped information about the surrounding environment. Due to the dynamic network topology of such networks the context quality indicators seen by the nodes vary over time. A node delays the context forwarding decision until context of better quality is attained. Moreover, nodes have limited resources, thus, they have to balance between energy conservation and quality of context. We propose a time-optimized, distributed decision making model for forwarding context in a MSN based on the theory of optimal stopping. We compare our findings with certain context forwarding schemes found in the literature and pinpoint the advantages of the proposed model.     

Path planning in GPS-denied environments via collective intelligence of distributed sensor networks

This paper proposes a framework for reactive goal-directed navigation without global positioning facilities in unknown dynamic environments. A mobile sensor network is used for localising regions of interest for path planning of an autonomous mobile robot. The underlying theory is an extension of a generalised gossip algorithm that has been recently developed in a language-measure-theoretic setting. The algorithm has been used to propagate local decisions of target detection over a mobile sensor network and thus, it generates a belief map for the detected target over the network. In this setting, an autonomous mobile robot may communicate only with a few mobile sensing nodes in its own neighbourhood and localise itself relative to the communicating nodes with bounded uncertainties. The robot makes use of the knowledge based on the belief of the mobile sensors to generate a sequence of way-points, leading to a possible goal. The estimated way-points are used by a sampling-based motion planning algorithm to generate feasible trajectories for the robot. The proposed concept has been validated by numerical simulation on a mobile sensor network test-bed and a Dubin’s car-like robot.     

自适应异构传感网节能优化拓扑控制研究

针对传统的节能优化算法没有充分考虑节点间的通信距离和节点失效后重新分簇等问题,为了延长网络的生存期,提出一种自适应优化异构无线传感器网络拓扑结构控制算法.提出的算法首先基于传输数据跳数和相邻传感器之间通信距离,依据相似三角形几何原理,结合具体应用场景对传感器节点的分簇、成簇等操作进行自适应优化控制.仿真实验表明:改进的...     

Performance modeling of the LEACH protocol for mobile wireless sensor networks

In many wireless sensor network applications, nodes are mobile, while many protocols proposed for these networks assume a static network. Thus, it is important to evaluate if a traditional protocol designed for a static network can tolerate different levels of mobility. This paper provides an analytic model to investigate the effect of mobility on a well-known cluster-based protocol, LEACH. The model evaluates data loss after construction of the clusters due to node mobility, which can be used to estimate a proper update interval to balance the energy and data loss ratio. Thus, the results can help the network designer to adjust the topology update interval given a value of acceptable data loss threshold. A practical approach to increase the mobility tolerance of the protocol is applying a buffer zone to the transmission ranges of the nodes. The model is extended in order to consider the effect of buffer zone. To validate the analytic evaluations, extensive simulations are conducted and correctness of the evaluations is tightly verified.     

基于分簇机制的移动无线传感器网络数据采集协议*

为了均衡无线传感器网络的能量消耗,提出了一种基于分簇机制的移动无线传感器网络数据采集协议。该协议中,整个网络使用网格均匀分簇,节点根据加权能量—邻居规则选出分布在簇中间区域的簇头,簇头负责收集簇内兴趣事件并进行数据融合,移动sink依次运动到簇的中心点位置收集簇内兴趣事件。仿真结果表明,该协议有效地均衡了网络的能量消耗,延长了网络的生存时间。     

Using mobile data collectors to improve network lifetime of wireless sensor networks with reliability constraints

In this paper, we focus on maximizing network lifetime of a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) using mobile Data Collectors (DCs) without compromising on the reliability requirements. We consider a heterogeneous WSN which consists of a large number of sensor nodes, a few DCs, and a static Base Station (BS). The sensor nodes are static and are deployed uniformly in the terrain. The DCs have locomotion capabilities and their movement can be controlled. Each sensor node periodically sends sensed event packets to its nearest DC. The DCs aggregate the event packets received from the sensor nodes and send these aggregate event packets to the static BS. We address the following problem: the DCs should send the aggregate event packets to the BS with a given reliability while avoiding the hotspot regions such that the network lifetime is improved. Reliability is achieved by sending each aggregate event packet via multiple paths to the BS. The network lifetime is maximized by moving the DCs in such a way that the forwarding load is distributed among the sensor nodes. We propose both centralized and distributed approaches for finding a movement strategy of the DCs. We show via simulations that the proposed approaches achieve the required reliability and also maximize the network lifetime compared to the existing approaches.     

基于移动节点的无线传感器网络定位算法

节点定位技术是无线传感器网络应用的重要支撑技术之一,为了提高定位算法的准确性,提出了一种基于移动目标节点的两步定位算法。该算法利用一个移动目标节点遍历整个网络,并周期性地广播包含自身当前位置的信息。而传感器节点的自身定位过程则可用基于无迹卡尔曼滤波(UKF)的目标跟踪方法实现。由于所用的目标状态模型和量测模型有一定的不确定性,所以先选取不共线的3个拥有RSSI测距能力的目标节点信息,利用Euclidean定位法提高滤波的初始位置精度,从而改善定位效果。通过仿真、分析和比较该目标节点在多种移动轨迹情况下的定位误差,这种两步定位法可以改善对目标节点移动轨迹的特殊要求的限制,能取得较好的定位精度,而且更适合于实际情况。     

An improved ant colony optimization-based approach with mobile sink for wireless sensor networks

Traditional wireless sensor networks (WSNs) with one static sink node suffer from the well-known hot spot problem, that of sensor nodes near the static sink bear more traffic load than outlying nodes. Thus, the overall network lifetime is reduced due to the fact some nodes deplete their energy reserves much faster compared to the rest. Recently, adopting sink mobility has been considered as a good strategy to overcome the hot spot problem. Mobile sink(s) physically move within the network and communicate with selected nodes, such as cluster heads (CHs), to perform direct data collection through short-range communications that requires no routing. Finding an optimal mobility trajectory for the mobile sink is critical in order to achieve energy efficiency. Taking hints from nature, the ant colony optimization (ACO) algorithm has been seen as a good solution to finding an optimal traversal path. Whereas the traditional ACO algorithm will guide ants to take a small step to the next node using current information, over time they will deviate from the target. Likewise, a mobile sink may communicate with selected node for a relatively long time making the traditional ACO algorithm delays not suitable for high real-time WSNs applications. In this paper, we propose an improved ACO algorithm approach for WSNs that use mobile sinks by considering CH distances. In this research, the network is divided into several clusters and each cluster has one CH. While the distance between CHs is considered under the traditional ACO algorithm, the mobile sink node finds an optimal mobility trajectory to communicate with CHs under our improved ACO algorithm. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can significantly improve wireless sensor network performance compared to other routing algorithms.     

基于无线传感器网络的安全网络运行环境构建

无线传感器网络被广泛应用到了军事和民用领域,安全问题始终是无线传感器网络需要突破的重要瓶颈,目前安全机制主要针对单一的攻击行为或针对攻击的某个阶段进行防护,没有形成一套完整的计算环境的安全保护机制。针对上述问题,提出了一种无线传感器网络安全运行环境构建方案,充分考虑无线传感器节点的计算能力及能耗,静态度量和动态度量相结合,主、被动相结合保障无线传感器网络组网和运行过程中计算环境的安全。仿真实验表明,该方案可以有效识别恶意节点,能耗较低,能够确保少量节点遭到攻击时全网仍能正常运转。     

面向移动汇聚节点的无线传感器网络自适应路由方法

针对无线传感器网络面向移动汇聚节点的自适应路由问题,为实现路由过程中对节点能量以及计算、存储、通信资源的优化利用,并对数据传输时延和投递率等服务质量进行优化,提出一种基于强化学习的自适应路由方法,设计综合的奖赏函数以实现对能量、时延和投递率等多个指标的综合优化。从报文结构、路由初始化、路径选择等方面对路由协议进行详细设计,采用汇聚节点声明以及周期性洪泛机制加速收敛速度,从而支持汇聚节点的快速移动。理论分析表明基于强化学习的路由方法具备收敛快、协议开销低以及存储计算需求小等特点,能够适用于能量和资源受限的传感器节点。在仿真平台中通过性能评估和对比分析验证了所述自适应路由算法的可行性和优越性。