The existence of a mobile sink for gathering data significantly extends wireless sensor networks (WSNs) lifetime. In recent years, variety efficient rendezvous points-based mobility approaches has been proposed avoiding the energy sink-holes problem nearby sink, diminishing buffer overflow sensors, and reducing latency. Nevertheless, lots research carried out to sort holes using controllable-ba...

The concept of source and sink strength is presently well-recognized and accepted by the scientific community as a pertinent approach describing the mechanisms of carbohydrate partitioning into the different and competing organs at a whole plant or canopy scales. Sink–source relationships have a clear role in the size of sink organs. Besides the effect on organ size, sink/source ratio might also...

A unique sink orientation (USO) is an orientation of the n-dimensional cube graph (n-cube) such that every face (subcube) has a unique sink. The number of unique sink orientations is nΘ(2 n) [13]. If a cube orientation is not a USO, it contains a pseudo unique sink orientation (PUSO): an orientation of some subcube such that every proper face of it has a unique sink, but the subcube itself hasn...

Wireless sensor network (WSN) is built of many sensor nodes.The sensors can sense a phenomenon, which will be represented in a formof data and sent to an aggregator for further processing.WSN is used inmany applications, such as object tracking and security monitoring. The objects in many situations need physical and location protection. In addition to the source location privacy, sink location...

of dissertation Presented to the Graduate School of the University of Florida in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy THE RESEARCH ON EXTENDING THE LIFETIME OF WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS By YoungSang Yun August 2010 Chair: Ye Xia Major: Computer Engineering We study various problems efficient energy management for wireless sensor networks. First, we resea...

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) designed for mission-critical applications suffer from limited sensing capacities, particularly fast energy depletion. Regarding this, mobile sinks can be used to balance the energy consumption in WSNs, but the frequent location updates of the mobile sinks can lead to data collisions and rapid energy consumption for some specific sensors. This paper explores an o...

For many sensor network applications such as military, homeland security, it is necessary for users (sinks) to access sensor networks while they are moving. However, sink mobility brings new challenges to secure routing in large-scale sensor networks. Mobile sinks have to constantly propagate their current location to all nodes, and these nodes need to exchange messages with each other so that ...