Mobile Collector Aided Energy Reduced (MCER) Data Collection in Agricultural Wireless Sensor Networks
T. H. Feiroz Khan, D. Siva Kumar · 2016
Mobile Sinks have done a good job aiding transfer of Data across a group of static networks in recent research endeavours. A major problem is the design of paradigms for the mobility of the Collector Node (Mobile Sink) for varying applications of WSNs. Most existing methods either generate mobile sink routes in order to merely reduce the energy expenditure in the networks. In this paper, we design and implement a strategy to regulate load while also improving the energy efficiency of the network. Each node has a threshold level of the load beyond which if there is inflow of data then the node automatically sends an MC_REQ requesting for aid from the mobile collector (MC). Based on the requests received from all the nodes, the MC estimates the most suitable position to move to among a bunch of static WSNs deployed to monitor and agricultural area. Simulations show the efficiency of the proposed MCER protocol.