A crucial issue for data collection in wireless sensor networks is that the energy consumption of the sensor nodes placed near the sink is very high. This is because the sensors placed near the sink have to forward the data to the sink on behalf of others resulting in the depletion of energy quickly, which will lead to network partitioning and limitation in the network lifetime. In order to sol...

Establishing an energy efficient wireless sensor network is a challenging task. A significant amount of research work has already been carried out in this direction to study energy optimization in WSN by taking the advantage of mobile sink or mobile agents. Many approaches using mobile sink have demonstrated that energy usage can be optimized significantly in the phenomenon area from where the ...

Improving the efficiency of data dissemination algorithms and protocols to mobile sink remains as an interesting research and engineering issue, especial for large-scale wireless sensor network. As the node energy and resources are limited, theses protocols should meet energyefficiency, low delay and high delivery ratio requirements. Although an energy-efficient dissemination tree (d-tree) can ...

The aim of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNS) is to accumulate data and in this perspective, firstly the need of distributed data management emerges and gain vital importance. Secondly data dissemination of this accumulated data has its own importance. Now distributed data management and data dissemination is an essential paradigm in wireless sensor networks resulting in minimizing the number of t...

Mobile sink is widely used for data collection in wireless sensor networks. It can avoid 'hot spot' problems but energy consumption caused by multihop transmission is still inefficient in real-time application scenarios. In this paper, a greedy scanning data collection strategy (GSDCS) is proposed, and we focus on how to reduce routing energy consumption by shortening total length of routing pa...

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...

We consider the problem of maximizing the lifetime of a wireless sensor network with a mobile sink. The sink travels at finite speed among a subset of possible sink locations to collect data from a stationary set of sensor nodes. The problem we consider chooses a subset of sink locations for the sink to visit, finds a tour for the sink among the selected sink locations, and prescribes an optima...

In order to support the sink mobility of conventional routing protocols, we propose a simple route maintaining algorithm which does not use the flooding method. In the proposed method, when the sink loses the connection with the source, it does not rebuild an entire route but simply repairs the existing route based on local information. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm dras...

In wireless sensor networks (WSNs), the sensor nodes transmit critical information over the network. Therefore security services such as authentication and pair wise key establishment between sensor nodes and mobile sinks are important. However, the problem of authentication and pair wise key establishment in sensor networks with mobile sinks is still a critical problem in the face of mobile si...