Multiple Controlled Mobile Elements (Data Mules) for Data Collection in Sensor Networks

By David Jea, Arun Agrahara Somasundara, Mani B. Srivastava. International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, 2005

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Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications

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Joint mobile energy replenishment and data gathering in wireless rechargeable sensor networks (2011, background): “They proposed a threshold activation policy and demonstrated its performance for the cases that the coverage areas of sensors are completely or partially overlapped.”
Controlled sink mobility for prolonging wireless sensor networks lifetime (2008, unknown): “relays in [24, 40].”
MobiRoute: Routing Towards a Mobile Sink for Improving Lifetime in Sensor Networks (2006, methodology): “We refer to [3] and [4] for simulations and field studies in this regime.”
Energy conservation in wireless sensor networks: A survey (2009, background): “To this end in [65] the previous work of [71] is extended by considering multiple mobile elements.”
SenCar: An Energy-Efficient Data Gathering Mechanism for Large-Scale Multihop Sensor Networks (2006, background): “IN recent years, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) havebeen playing an increasingly important role in a wide range of applications, such as medical treatment, outer space exploration, battlefield surveillance, emergency response, and so forth [1], [2], [3], [4], [5].”
Mobility-based communication in wireless sensor networks (2006, methodology): “The relayed data collection approach is extended to utilize multiple MDCs in [9] to provide scalability of deployment area.”
Efficient Data Collection in Wireless Sensor Networks with Path-Constrained Mobile Sinks (2011, background): “Existing work has shown that sink mobility can improve the performance of WSNs [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9].”
Data collection, storage, and retrieval with an underwater sensor network (2005, background): “An important characteristic of the underwater sensor network we built is mobility, whose benefits have been explored previously in [6, 15–17].”