Energy efficient data diffusion in wireless sensor networks
R. B. Patel, Deepika Jain · 2009
The wireless sensor network is an emerging technology that may greatly facilitate human life by providing ubiquitous sensing, computing, and communication capability, through which people can more closely interact with the environment whenever required. One of the most important problems studied in any sensor network is data fusion. Client/server paradigm has been a commonly used computing model in traditional distributed wireless sensor networks (DWSNs). However, the deployment of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and its ad hoc nature have brought new challenges to the fusion task. For example, the advances in sensor technology allow better, cheaper, and smaller sensors to be used, which results in a much larger number of sensors deployed. On the other hand, sensors communicate through wireless networks where the network bandwidth is much lower than for wired communication.