Optimal coverage multi-path scheduling scheme with multiple mobile sinks for WSNs

Wang, J., Gao, Y., Zhou, C., Sherratt, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7899-4445 and Wang, L. (2020) Optimal coverage multi-path scheduling scheme with multiple mobile sinks for WSNs. Computers, Materials & Continua, 62 (2). pp. 695-711. ISSN 1546-2226 doi: 10.32604/cmc.2020.08674

Abstract/Summary

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are usually formed with many tiny sensors which are randomly deployed within sensing field for target monitoring. These sensors can transmit their monitored data to the sink in a multi-hop communication manner. However, the ‘hot spots’ problem will be caused since nodes near sink will consume more energy during forwarding. Recently, mobile sink based technology provides an alternative solution for the long-distance communication and sensor nodes only need to use single hop communication to the mobile sink during data transmission. Even though it is difficult to consider many network metrics such as sensor position, residual energy and coverage rate etc., it is still very important to schedule a reasonable moving trajectory for the mobile sink. In this paper, a novel trajectory scheduling method based on coverage rate for multiple mobile sinks (TSCR-M) is presented especially for large-scale WSNs. An improved particle swarm optimization (PSO) combined with mutation operator is introduced to search the parking positions with optimal coverage rate. Then the genetic algorithm (GA) is adopted to schedule the moving trajectory for multiple mobile sinks. Extensive simulations are performed to validate the performance of our proposed method.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/89031
Identification Number/DOI	10.32604/cmc.2020.08674
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Life Sciences > School of Biological Sciences > Biomedical Sciences Life Sciences > School of Biological Sciences > Department of Bio-Engineering
Publisher	Tech Science Press
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