EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking (Nov 2020)

Double sink energy hole avoidance strategy for wireless sensor network

  • Suxia Chen,
  • Quanzheng Huang,
  • Yang Zhang,
  • Xin Li

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s13638-020-01837-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2020, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Abstract To solve the energy hole problem in wireless sensor networks with double sinks, a double sink energy hole avoidance strategy is proposed. The main idea is that two data sinks are set at fixed positions on both sides of the rectangular network to collect nodes data in the corresponding area of the network. In the network, sensor nodes are organized in non-uniform clusters. Clusters close to sink have a smaller cluster radius, and clusters far from sink have a larger cluster radius. According to the results of threshold training, monitoring area of double sink is dynamically adjusted based on the difference of energy consumption and load of nodes in the double sink monitoring area, so that the energy consumption load of nodes in the double sink monitoring area tends to be the same, so as to avoid the premature occurrence of energy hole phenomenon in the area with large load, leading to network failure. The experimental results demonstrate that the strategy proposed in this paper can efficiently balance the energy dissipation of double sink and prolong the network energy utilization efficiency and network lifetime.

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