A Hybrid Sink Relocation Model for Data Gathering in Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

Wireless Sensor Networks comprises of large number of sensors which are deployed in the network. These sensors are battery operated devices and energy constraint is the main problem that needs to be addressed effectively and efficiently. In order to overcome the problems that arise due to energy hole and multi hop transmission a Hybrid model of Sink Relocation for the data gathering purpose in wireless sensor network has been presented along with the scheduling strategy which is employed to our hybrid model. The strategy presented helps in improving the various performance metrics of the wireless sensor network thereby resulting in minimizing the overall energy consumption of the network thereby resulting in significant amount of energy saving and extending the lifetime of all the sensors as well as the entire network.