This paper describes an autonomous deployment and restoration of a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) using mobile robots. The authors have been developing an information-gathering system using mobile robots and WSNs in underground spaces in post-disaster environments. In our system, mobile robots carry wireless sensor nodes (SN) and deploy them into the environment while measuring Received Signal S...

Positioning service is one of Wireless Sensor Networks’ (WSNs) fundamental services. The accurate position of the sensor nodes plays a vital role in many applications of WSNs. In this paper, a 3D positioning algorithm is being proposed, using mobile anchor node to assist sensor nodes in order to estimate their positions in a 3D geospatial environment. However, mobile anchor node’s 3D path optim...

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have been emerged in many important aspects in the real world, such as industry, agriculture, and military applications. As the main challenge that WSNs facing is the energy consumption, it is necessary to investigate the suitability of using mobile sinks for data collection in these networks. In this paper, therefore, a new data gathering technique with mobile e...

In WSN, data aggregation is an important process for reducing the energy consumption. We can reduce energy consumption by using the efficient technique for data aggregation. Also, achieving the reliability and robustness of transferring data is one of the major issues and challenges. in order to produce both reliability and energy efficiency, in this paper we propose to design a Mobile Sink for...

A body sensor network is a network of small sensor devices (biosensors) that sense health parameters of an individual, allowing 24/7 monitoring, providing biofeedback services. These networks have typically two layers: the sensor array and a sink node. The sink node manages the network, gathering sensor data continuously. However, raw sensor data is not enough to achieve biofeedback. One of the...

Wireless sensor networks with mobile sink are expected to increase the flexibility for gathering information in the large-scale sensing and detecting environments. The sink can randomly move within the sensing area to collect the sensing data. Energy saving becomes one of the most important features for the sensor nodes to extend their lifetime in such networks. To provide reasonable energy con...

In this position paper we address key challenges in the deployment of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) with mobile sinks for large-scale, continuous monitoring. We propose a heterogeneous and hierarchical WSN architecture for such purpose. we also introduce several novel, constrained optimization problems related to this new paradigm of data gathering, which serve as the potential research topic...