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An optimal sink selection scheme for multi-sink wireless sensor networks

  • Danyan Luo*
  • , Decheng Zuo
  • , Xiaozong Yang
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology

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Abstract

Wireless sensor networks consist of sensor nodes and sink nodes. Due to the variety of applications, the interconnection between wireless sensor networks and Internet is needed. In order to have the access to the Internet, a sensor node must select a sink node as the gateway to the Internet. The selection of sink has great influence on the delivery latency and network efficiency. In this paper, we present a novel sink selection scheme which take transmission latency and sink forwarding latency into consideration. The optimal sink for the sensor node is the closest sink that has the least wait send packets. Simulation results demonstrate that this scheme has a low sink discovery overhead, a low end-to-end packet delivery latency, and a good packet delivery ratio.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology, ICCSIT 2008
Pages544-548
Number of pages5
DOIs
StatePublished - 2008
Externally publishedYes
EventInternational Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology, ICCSIT 2008 - Singapore, Singapore
Duration: 29 Aug 20082 Sep 2008

Publication series

NameProceedings of the International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology, ICCSIT 2008

Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology, ICCSIT 2008
Country/TerritorySingapore
CitySingapore
Period29/08/082/09/08

Keywords

  • Multiple sink
  • Sink selection
  • Wireless sensor networks

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