Enhanced energy-aware routing protocol with mobile sink optimization for wireless sensor networks

Abstract

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs), one of the emerging technologies in the Internet of Things (IoT) field, have a wide range of applications, including healthcare, environmental biology, facility monitoring, and many more. These networks collect, process, and transmit environmental data by connecting a wireless network of small, resource-constrained sensors to other sensors. One of the main challenges in running wireless sensor networks is controlling the movement of mobile sinks. Mobile sinks are movable and can be used as data gathering sites in a network. Nevertheless, this movement has some problems, including a lot of route and energy changes. The history of the network shows that inadequate routing control, inconsistent energy use, and poor service quality have all been made worse by sink migration. These extra features need the use of more sophisticated and clever techniques for routing data to mobile sinks. Therefore, this study proposes an upgraded intelligent routing protocol for a mobile wireless sensor network based on intelligent monitoring for mobile sinks (MSs). Compared to previous mobile sparse techniques, the simulations show a 38% increase in network throughput and a 42% improvement in end-to-end latency. Moreover, the energy consumption and control overhead dictate the network's lifespan.