Research on Data Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks
Bin Yan · Computer and Modernization · 2011
Data aggregation is the front line of technique,more and more academic researchers and people from industry are engaged in developing wireless sensor networks due to the great promise and potential with various applications.Aiming to the severe energy and computing resource constraints of wireless sensor networks(WSN),data aggregation is a very important technique that assists it in decreasing the energy consumption,cutting down time delays and decreasing overhead of the transmission during the process of data collection in a wireless sensor networks.This paper introduces the function and significance of data aggregation,specifies the existing and typical classification of data aggregation,points out the direction and prospects of data aggregation in WSN.