EEMC: An energy-efficient multi-level clustering algorithm for large-scale wireless sensor networks

Wireless sensor networks can be used to collect environmental data from the interested area using multi-hop communication. As sensor networks have limited and non-rechargeable energy resources, energy efficiency is a very important issue in designing the topology, which affects the lifetime of sensor networks greatly. In this paper, the energy consumption is modeled and compared under the flat scheme and the clustering scheme, respectively. Motivated by the analysis, we propose an energy-efficient multi-level clustering algorithm called EEMC, which is designed to achieve minimum energy consumption in sensor networks. The cluster head election scheme is also considered in EEMC. EEMC terminates in O(log log N) iterations given N nodes. When the path loss exponent is 2, EEMC also achieves minimum latency. We focus on the case where sink node is remotely located and sensor nodes are stationary. Simulation results demonstrate that our proposed algorithm is effective in prolonging the network lifetime of a large-scale network, as well as low latency and moderate overhead across the network.     

改进的LEACH协议在井下通信系统中的应用

无线传感器网络由能量受限的节点组成,通过部署这些节点以便收集特定监测区域内的有用信息.基于层次的LEACH协议通过将节点分簇以实现数据融合.随机选择的簇头节点接收到本簇成员的数据后进行融合处理,将结果传输到汇聚节点.避免每个节点都与远距离的汇聚节点直接通信,从而节约能耗.将无线传感器网络应用于井下通信系统,能够提高通信的安全性.LEACH的分簇结构与矿井内分坑道工作的情况相类似,把每个坑道作为一个簇,将多数传感器节点安置在坑道内的固定位置,少量节点随矿工位置移动,再将这些节点采集的数据传输至簇头节点.本文主要针对井下通信系统的特点对现有的LEACH协议进行改进,优化了簇头节点的选举方法,并允许部分节点采用多跳方式与汇聚节点通信,使其更符合矿井结构的要求,从而节约了能耗,并且有效地延长了网络的生存时间.     

基于单向多汇聚节点的WSN分层路由协议

针对分层无线传感器网络的簇首节点容易成为网络瓶颈制约网络性能的不足,提出一种低能耗的路由协议。采用多汇聚（Sink）节点模式来构建网络,利用RSSI（接收信号强度指示）测出各传感器节点与各Sink节点之间的距离,并依据距离的远近为Sink节点划分作用域。通过传感器节点单向与所属Sink节点通信来降低簇首节点的负担。仿真实验结果表明提出的路由协议能有效克服簇首节点网络瓶颈问题,从而降低网络能耗,提高网络生存时间,对于无线传感器网络应用于大范围数据收集的网络具有重要的价值。     

一种基于区域分裂与合并的势博弈网络拓扑控制算法

现有无线传感器网络拓扑控制算法在传感器节点部署密集或稀疏区域存在网络拓扑链路冗余、个别节点负载过重、瓶颈节点和网络生命周期短等问题。针对这些问题,提出一种基于区域分裂与合并的势博弈网络拓扑控制算法,该算法首先划分目标区域并随机抛洒传感器节点,在每个子区域内进行博弈并选出簇首节点,利用区域分裂与合并思想,在节点密集区域进行分割再博弈,防止部分节点负载过大,在节点稀疏区域利用权重链路进行合并,防止出现瓶颈节点以保障网络连通;然后对所有簇首节点实施二次势博弈生成簇首拓扑结构连接各子区域。仿真结果表明,该算法能够有效缓解节点负载,均衡节点能耗,延长网络生命周期。     

基于改进ACO的WSN感知数据传输策略研究

无线传感器网络(WSN)能够利用传感器节点快速准确地获取物理世界的信息从而作为物联网的感知层在监控领域得到了广泛的应用,而能量利用率是能量受限无线传感器网络的一个关键属性,直接影响网络的生命周期.经典的分层路由LEACH(及其变种)算法是无线传感器网络中最常见的节能路由协议.该文提出了一种改进的LEACH算法,由sin...     

基于内河无线传感网络的分簇路由算法

针对内河无线传感网络呈长距离双线型分布特点,提出的RECR算法可以有效地改善路由能耗消耗不均的问题。根据节点的分布的特点和节点离汇聚节点的距离来构造簇,根据簇中所有节点的能耗比来选择簇头, 根据多汇聚节点和簇头线型分布的特点设计 簇间路由。仿真结果表明,RECR算法显著平衡了网中节点能耗,延长了网络生存时间。     

Particle swarm optimization based clustering algorithm with mobile sink for WSNs

Wireless sensor networks with fixed sink node often suffer from hot spots problem since sensor nodes close to the sink usually have more traffic burden to forward during transmission process. Utilizing mobile sink has been shown as an effective technique to enhance the network performance such as energy efficiency, network lifetime, and latency, etc. In this paper, we propose a particle swarm optimization based clustering algorithm with mobile sink for wireless sensor network. In this algorithm, the virtual clustering technique is performed during routing process which makes use of the particle swarm optimization algorithm. The residual energy and position of the nodes are the primary parameters to select cluster head. The control strategy for mobile sink to collect data from cluster head is well designed. Extensive simulation results show that the energy consumption is much reduced, the network lifetime is prolonged, and the transmission delay is reduced in our proposed routing algorithm than some other popular routing algorithms.     

C-DTB-CHR: centralized density- and threshold-based cluster head replacement protocols for wireless sensor networks

Advances introduced to electronics and electromagnetics leverage the production of low-cost and small wireless sensors. Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) consist of large amount of sensors equipped with radio frequency capabilities. In WSNs, data routing algorithms can be classified based on the network architecture into flat, direct, and hierarchal algorithms. In hierarchal (clustering) protocols, network is divided into sub-networks in which a node acts as a cluster head, while the rest behave as member nodes. It is worth mentioning that the sensor nodes have limited processing, storage, bandwidth, and energy capabilities. Hence, providing energy-efficient clustering protocol is a substantial research subject for many researchers. Among proposed cluster-based protocols, low-energy adaptive clustering hierarchy (LEACH) and threshold LEACH (T-LEACH), as well as modified threshold-based cluster head replacement (MT-CHR) protocols are of a great interest as of being energy optimized. In this article, we propose two protocols to cluster a WSN through taking advantage of the shortcomings of these protocols (i.e., LEACH, T-LEACH, and MT-CHR), namely centralized density- and threshold-based cluster head replacement (C-DTB-CHR) and C-DTB-CHR with adaptive data distribution (C-DTB-CHR-ADD) protocols that mainly aim at optimizing energy through minimizing the number of re-clustering operations, precluding cluster heads nodes premature death, deactivating some nodes located at dense areas from cluster’s participation, as well as reducing long-distance communications. In particular, in C-DTB-CHR protocol, some nodes belong to dense clusters are put in the sleeping mode based on a certain node active probability, thereby reducing the communications with the cluster heads and consequently prolonging the network lifetime. Moreover, the base station is concerned about setting up the required clusters and accordingly informing sensor nodes along with their corresponding active probability. C-DTB-CHR-ADD protocol provides more energy optimization through adaptive data distribution where direct and multi-hoping communications are possible. Interestingly, our simulation results show impressive improvements over what are closely related in the literature in relation to network lifetime, utilization, and network performance degradation period.     

Energy Efficient Backoff Hierarchical Clustering Algorithms for Multi-Hop Wireless Sensor Networks

Compared with flat routing protocols, clustering is a fundamental performance improvement technique in wireless sensor networks, which can increase network scalability and lifetime. In this paper, we integrate the multi-hop technique with a backoff-based clustering algorithm to organize sensors. By using an adaptive backoff strategy, the algorithm not only realizes load balance among sensor node, but also achieves fairly uniform cluster head distribution across the network. Simulation results also demonstrate our algorithm is more energy-efficient than classical ones. Our algorithm is also easily extended to generate a hierarchy of cluster heads to obtain better network management and energy-efficiency.     

一种适用于煤矿井下无线传感网的能量均衡路由协议

矿井无线传感网的拓扑呈长距离带状,节点间能耗不均问题十分严重。非均匀分簇策略能从全局均衡节点能量负载,在矿井中具有良好的适用性。针对矿井传感网的带状特性提出了一个簇规模自适应调节的能量均衡分簇路由协议。协议根据节点离汇聚点的距离、剩余能量及分布密度来构造规模不等的簇。簇首的竞选以节点相对于周围候选者的能量水平为依据,避免了低能量节点被当选为簇首。簇间多跳路由算法依簇首近似线型的分布特点设计,不但考虑链路能耗最优,亦注重转发节点间的能量均衡。模拟实验结果表明,该路由协议显著平衡了网中节点能耗,延长了网络生存时间。     

无线传感器网络数据融合协议比较

传感器网络由电池能量受限的节点组成,必须采用一种能量有效的方法收集节点感知的信息,如果每个节点都采用单跳方式将其感知的数据直接传输给汇聚节点,则与汇聚节点距离较远的节点能量将很快被耗尽。应用于无线传感器网络的LEACH协议提出了通过分簇实现数据融合的方法,簇头在接收到本簇成员的数据后进行融合处理,最终,将融合结果传输到汇聚节点。另一种应用数据融合的PEGASIS协议,是一种接近理想的基于链状的协议,它在LEACH协议的基础上做出了改进。在PEGASIS中,每个节点只与一个位置最近的邻居进行通信,并且,轮流传输数据到汇聚节点,然后,降低每一轮中的能量消耗。模拟结果表明:采用PEGASIS协议有效地延长了网络的生存时间。     

Handling large-scale node failures in mobile sensor/robot networks

In Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), maintaining connectivity with the sink node is a crucial issue to collect data from sensors without any interruption. While sensors are typically deployed in abundance to tolerate possible node failures, a large number of simultaneous node failures within the same region may result in partitioning the network which may disrupt the network operation significantly. Given that WSNs are deployed in inhospitable environments, such node failures are very likely due to storms, fires, floods, etc. The self-recovery of the network from these large-scale node failures is challenging since the nodes will not have any information about the location and span of the damage. In this paper, we first present a distributed partition detection algorithm which quickly makes the sensors aware of the partitioning in the network. This process is led by the sensors whose upstream nodes fail due to damages. Upon partition detection, sensors federate the partitions and restore data communication by utilizing the former routing information stored at each sensor to the sink node and exploiting sensor mobility. Specifically, the locations of failed sensors on former routes are used to assess the span of the damage and some of the sensors are relocated to such locations to re-establish the routes with the sink node. Relocation on such former routes is performed in such a way that the movement overhead on sensors is also minimized. Our proposed approach solely depends on the local information to ensure autonomicity, timeliness and scalability. The effectiveness of the proposed federation approach is validated through realistic simulation experiments and has been shown to provide the mentioned features.     

Resilience of sink filtering scheme in wireless sensor networks

One of severe security threats in wireless sensor network is node compromise. A compromised node can easily inject false data reports on the events that do not occur. The existing approaches in which each forwarding sensor along a path probabilistically filters out injected false data may not be adequate because such protection may break down when more than a threshold number of nodes are compromised. To solve this problem, we present a sink filtering scheme in clusters of heterogeneous sensor networks. In addition to basic sensors, some powerful data gathering sensors termed as cluster heads (CHs) are added. Each aggregation report generated by a CH must carry multiple keyed message authentication codes (MACs); each MAC is generated by a basic sensor that senses the event. The sink node checks the validity of the carried MACs in an aggregation report and filters out the forged report. We analyze the resilience and overhead of the sink filtering scheme. Both analytical and simulation results show that the scheme is resilient to an increasing number of compromised nodes, with graceful performance degradation. Particularly, we adopt Poisson Approximation to investigate the performance tradeoff between resilience and overall cost, and give some suggestions on how to choose the parameters. The scheme is also scalable and efficient in communication, computation and storage.     

WSN数据收集中移动sink的路径规划和蔟头节点选取问题的综合研究

针对较大规模的无线传感器网络通过多跳传输进行数据收集而引起的能量空洞问题,本文提出了一种基于移动sink的簇头节点数据收集算法（MSRDG）,该算法基于图论原理,在满足时延性的条件下,综合考虑了普通节点到簇头节点路由和移动sink遍历路经选取的问题,构建了一条通过的簇头节点尽可能多的移动轨迹。通过NS-2仿真软件对算法的性能进行评估,结果显示出该算法能减少数据的多跳传输,降低无线传感器网络节点的能量消耗,延长网络寿命。     

Fault-resilient sensing in wireless sensor networks

Research on wireless sensor networks (WSNs) has received tremendous attention in the past few years due to their potential applications and advances in the VLSI design. In WSNs with tiny sensors, mobility of a sink may provide an energy efficient way for data dissemination. Having a mobile sink in WSN, however, creates new challenges to routing and sensor distribution modeling in the network. In this paper, based on clustering and routing optimization algorithms, we propose a new scheme called K-means and TSP-based mobility (KAT mobility). After clustering the sensor nodes, the proposed method navigates the mobile sink to traverse through the cluster centers according to the trajectory of an optimized route. The mobile sink then collects the data from sensors at the visited clusters. Simulation results have demonstrated that the proposed scheme can provide not only better energy efficiency as compared to those obtained by conventional methods which assume random waypoint for the mobile sink, but also fault-resilience in case of malfunctions of some sensors due to attacks.     

Aggregated mobility-based topology inference for fast sensor data collection

We investigate the problem of efficient data collection in wireless sensor networks where both the sensors and the sink move. We especially study the important, realistic case where the spatial distribution of sensors is non-uniform and their mobility is diverse and dynamic. The basic idea of our protocol is for the sink to benefit of the local information that sensors spread in the network as they move, in order to extract current local conditions and accordingly adjust its trajectory. Thus, sensory motion anyway present in the network serves as a low cost replacement of network information propagation. In particular, we investigate two variations of our method: a) the greedy motion of the sink towards the region of highest density each time and b) taking into account the aggregate density in wider network regions. An extensive comparative evaluation to relevant data collection methods (both randomized and optimized deterministic), demonstrates that our approach achieves significant performance gains, especially in non-uniform placements (but also in uniform ones). In fact, the greedy version of our approach is more suitable in networks where the concentration regions appear in a spatially balanced manner, while the aggregate scheme is more appropriate in networks where the concentration areas are geographically correlated. We also investigate the case of multiple sinks by suggesting appropriate distributed coordination methods.     

SWER:small world-based efficient routing for wireless sensor networks with mobile sinks

The interest in small-world network has highlighted the applicability of both the graph theory and the scaling theory to the analysis of network systems. In this paper, we introduce a new routing protocol, small world-based efficient routing (SWER), dedicated to supporting sink mobility and small transfers. The method is based on the concept of the small worlds where the addition of a small number of long-range links in highly clustered networks results in significant reduction in the average path length. Based on the characteristic of sensor networks, a cluster-based small world network is presented, and an analytical model is developed to analyze the expected path length. SWER adopts a simple and effective routing strategy to forward data to the mobile sink in a small transfer scene and avoid expensive mechanisms to construct a high quality route. We also study the routing scheme and analyze the expected path length in the case where every node is aware of the existence of p longrange links. In addition, we develop a hierarchical mechanism in which the mobile sink only transmits its location information to the cluster heads when it enters a new cluster. Thus we also avoid expensive cost to flood the location of the mobile sink to the whole network.     

多稀疏基分簇压缩感知的WSN数据融合方法

针对传感器节点采集数据精度与能量消耗的矛盾,提出多稀疏基分簇压缩感知的无线传感器网络WSN（Wireless Sensor Network）数据融合方法。该方法利用改进的阈值对随机部署的传感器节点进行簇首选择继而形成最优簇,簇首采用伯努利随机观测矩阵对簇内节点信号进行线性压缩投影,然后将压缩的信息传送给汇聚节点,减少数据传输即降低通信能耗,从而提高网络的生命周期。根据传感器节点监测信号在有限差分和小波中都具有可压缩特性,汇聚节点在有限差分和小波两个稀疏基的约束下,利用OOMP算法分别对线形压缩投影信息进行重构;并采用最小二乘法融合重构信号,提高数据精度。仿真实验结果表明,多稀疏基分簇压缩感知的WSN数据融合方法在减少数据发送的情况下,能提高整个网络的生命周期,解决采集数据精度与网络生命周期的矛盾。     

蚁群算法在LEACH路由协议中的应用

减少网络能量损失,增加网络的生成时间是无线传感网络的重要研究内容。LEACH是针对无线传感网络设计的低功耗自适应的路由算法。但是传统LEACH路由算法存在簇首开销过大、簇规模分布不均匀等问题。针对LEACH算法存在的缺点,从成簇方式和簇头路由拓扑提出改进方案,成簇半径随着距离Sink节点的增加而减小,簇首间采用蚁群算法进行路由优化。实验从网络节点存活的节点数目和节点的平均耗能两个指标对仿真结果进行评价,仿真结果显示改进算法网络的生存时间比传统结果提高了15％,节点平均能耗降低20％。改进算法可有效减少网络的总能量消耗,均衡网络的负载。     

SWER: small world-based efficient routing for wireless sensor networks with mobile sinks

The interest in small-world network has highlighted the applicability of both the graph theory and the scaling theory to the analysis of network systems. In this paper, we introduce a new routing protocol, small world-based efficient routing (SWER), dedicated to supporting sink mobility and small transfers. The method is based on the concept of the small worlds where the addition of a small number of long-range links in highly clustered networks results in significant reduction in the average path length. Based on the characteristic of sensor networks, a cluster-based small world network is presented, and an analytical model is developed to analyze the expected path length. SWER adopts a simple and effective routing strategy to forward data to the mobile sink in a small transfer scene and avoid expensive mechanisms to construct a high quality route. We also study the routing scheme and analyze the expected path length in the case where every node is aware of the existence of p long-range links. In addition, we develop a hierarchical mechanism in which the mobile sink only transmits its location information to the cluster heads when it enters a new cluster. Thus we also avoid expensive cost to flood the location of the mobile sink to the whole network.