Fast mobility control protocols with sink location protection in wireless sensor networks. (8th June 2011)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Chen, Xiao; Gu, Qijun; Jiang, Zhen; Wu, Jie
• Is Part Of: International journal of internet protocol technology. Volume 6:Number 1/2(2011)
• Page Start: 3
• Page End: 17
• Publication Date: 2011-06-08
• Subjects: anonymity -- mobility control -- privacy preservation -- sink location protection -- wireless sensor networks -- WSNs -- wireless networks -- convergence speed -- energy consumption -- communication cost -- optimal deployment -- streaming data flows -- simulation; File Transfer Protocol (Computer network protocol) -- Periodicals; Multicasting (Computer networks) -- Periodicals; 004.678
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1743-8209

Abstract

In this paper, we propose several novel fast converging mobility control protocols to achieve optimal deployment for streaming data flows in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). We also identify a unique sink privacy issue in mobility control protocols and propose a new privacy-preserving scheme which can be integrated into mobility control protocols to protect the sink. The simulation and performance analysis show that the proposed privacy-preserving mobility control protocols, with the sink node well-protected, can reach near-optimal results in terms of convergence speed, energy consumption and the communication cost.