Tutorial: Mobile Sinks in Distributed Sensor Environments
Sangjoon Park · The Smart Computing Review · 2014
In this paper, we propose an analysis method for mobile sinks in distributed area sensor networks. We use an agent node to communicate with the mobile sink in distributed environments. With the designed strategy, the agent sensor node gathers the appropriate data from general sensor nodes and then sends them to the mobile sink. We study the relation between the agent sensor node and the operation strategy based on the purpose of the mission. Based on the movement property of the mobile sink, network configuration can be modified to adjust the role of the sensor nodes. We provide simulation results of the proposed agent-based scheme for performance evaluation.