Sink mobility has been widely used to reduce the energy consumption of sensor nodes, which can prolong the lifetime of nodes in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Researchers found that sink mobility can improve the stability, throughput and lifetime of the very large-scale WSNs. However, sink mobility also causes issues such as data latency and communication overhead. With these properties sink ...

More and more researchers concentrate their attention on energy efficient usage and lifetime of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). One of the complications impacting network lifetime is hotspot issue which can be solved by emerging Mobile Sink Wireless Sensor Networks (MSWSNs). In this paper, we propose circle-based data dissemination (CBDD) algorithm which supposes that sensor nodes are symmetri...

In multi-hop data collection sensor network, nodes near the sink need to relay remote data, thus, have much faster energy dissipation rate and suffer from premature death. This phenomenon cause energy hole near the sink, seriously damaging the network performance. In this paper, we propose sink mobility with adjustable communication range to avoid the energy hole. First of all, we compute energ...

This paper exploits sink mobility to prolong the lifetime of sensor networks while maintaining the data transmission delay relatively low. A location predictive and time adaptive data gathering scheme is proposed. In this paper, we introduce a sink location prediction principle based on loose time synchronization and deduce the time-location formulas of the mobile sink. According to local clock...

Sink mobility creates new challenges for several sensor network applications. In mobile sink environments, each sink must propagate its current location continuously, through a sensor field, in order to keep all sensor nodes updated with the direction of data forwarding. This method consumes large amounts of energy. Although several protocols, such as DD, TTDD, and SEAD, have been proposed, in ...

Leaves undergo a sink-source transition during which a physiological change occurs from carbon import to export. In sink leaves, biolistic bombardment of plasmids encoding GFP-fusion proteins demonstrated that proteins with an Mr up to 50 kDa could move freely through plasmodesmata. During the sink-source transition, the capacity to traffic proteins decreased substantially and was accompanied b...

Results of numerical optimization are reported for a phase change heat sink used to cool electronic equipment in extreme environments. The heat sink consists of a conventional, extruded aluminum sink embedded in a block of phase change material. This type of heat sink is used in infrared cameras carried by fire fighters into burning buildings. Optimization of the geometry of the heat sink assem...

In this work\ a new concept for a two!layered micro!channel heat sink with counter current ~ow arrangement for cooling of the electronic components is proposed[ The thermal performance and the temperature distribution for these types of micro channels were analyzed and a procedure for optimizing the geometrical design parameters is presented[ While the power supply system of the two!layered des...

Sink location protection is critical to the viability of sensor networks as the central point of failure. Most existing work related to sink location protection focuses on local traffic analysis attack. In this paper, we study the sink location protection problem under a more powerful type of attack, the global traffic analysis attack. In order to hide the sink location, a protocol based on pac...