Ferry based data gathering in Wireless Sensor Networks
Gurudevi C. Vanarotti, Umesh M. Kulkarni, Harish H. Kenchannavar · 2016
Wireless Sensor Networks are widely used in various applications like maintenance of ecosystems, in militaries, hospitals, etc Also WSNs are used with the data gathering methods to enhance the resources and energy which lack in some performance parameters. So here, we are combining the concept of ferry to the WSN. In general, ferries are small commutator boats which carry or take the peoples from different places to reach to their destination within a particular region considering water as a medium. Thus the ferries are mobile device which takes the data or information from different sensor nodes, aggregate it together and transmit to the base-station travelling through the shortest distance considering WSN as a medium. So an efficient data collection algorithm for the heterogeneous sensor nodes i.e., sensor nodes, cluster heads along with a ferry node is proposed. This proposed work can then be calculated in terms of parameters as network lifetime, total energy consumption and data travel time.