JCSE, vol. 9, no. 4, pp.163-176, 2015

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5626/JCSE.2015.9.4.163

Novel Architecture of Self-organized Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks

Syed Rizvi, Kelsey Karpinski, and Abdul Razaque
Department of Information Sciences and Technology, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona, PA, USA Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH, USA

Abstract: Self-organization of distributed wireless sensor nodes is a critical issue in wireless sensor networks (WSNs), since each sensor node has limited energy, bandwidth, and scalability. These issues prevent sensor nodes from actively collaborating with the other types of sensor nodes deployed in a typical heterogeneous and somewhat hostile environment. The automated self-organization of a WSN becomes more challenging as the number of sensor nodes increases in the network. In this paper, we propose a dynamic self-organized architecture that combines tree topology with a drawn-grid algorithm to automate the self-organization process for WSNs. In order to make our proposed architecture scalable, we assume that all participating active sensor nodes are unaware of their primary locations. In particular, this paper presents two algorithms called active-tree and drawn-grid. The proposed active-tree algorithm uses a tree topology to assign node IDs and define different roles to each participating sensor node. On the other hand, the drawn-grid algorithm divides the sensor nodes into cells with respect to the radio coverage area and the specific roles assigned by the active-tree algorithm. Thus, both proposed algorithms collaborate with each other to automate the self-organizing process for WSNs. The numerical and simulation results demonstrate that the proposed dynamic architecture performs much better than a static architecture in terms of the self-organization of wireless sensor nodes and energy consumption.

Keyword: Wireless sensor networks; Self-organization; Mobile nodes; Mobile communications; Random clustering; Sensor node

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