Energy-efficient data dissemination in sensor networks using distributed dynamic tree management

Abstract

In this paper, an energy-efficient data disemination protocol designed for mobile sink applications in sensor networks, is proposed. The dissemination scheme exploits the Distributed Dynamic Tree (DDT), which is able to identify current location sinks locally and dynamically transform the tree shape according to sink movement. In addition, the Dynamic Shared Tree(DST), which is an extension of the DDT, is presented. The DST is able to accomocate multiple mobile sinks. The DST, based on the DDT, creates a two-tired network composed of a sensor data dissemination level and communication level between sinks. The simulation results demonstrate that the DST performs considerably energy-efficient data dissemination with relatively low delay, compared to other dissemination protocols.