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Using Location Services to Autonomously Drive Flying Mobile Sinks in Wireless Sensor Networks

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The use of mobility in a Wireless Sensor Network has already been indicated as a feature whose exploitation would increase the performances and the ease of mantainance in these environments. Expecially in a event-based WSN, where is necessary a prompt response in terms of data processing and offloading, a set of mobile flying sinks could be a good option for the role of autonomous data collectors. For those reasons in this paper we propose a distributed algorithm to independently and autonomously drive a mobile sink through the nodes of a WSN and we show its preferability over more classical routing approaches expecially in the presence of a localized generation of large amount of information. Our result shows that, in the case of fairly complete coverage of the area where the nodes lie, it is possible to promptly notify a mobile sink about the presence of data to offload, drive it to the interested area and achieve interesting performances.

The research of Nicola Roberto Zema is partially supported by European Union (EU), European Social Fund (ESF), Calabria Local Goverment and Inria Lille. This paper reflects the views only of the authors, and the EU, the ESF, Calabria Local Goverment and Inria Lille cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

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    Nathalie Mitton

  2. University “Mediterranea” of Reggio Calabria, Rome, Italy

    Nicola Roberto Zema & Giuseppe Ruggeri

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  1. INRIA, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France

    Natalie Mitton

  2. Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France

    Antoine Gallais

  3. Clarkson University, New York, USA

    Melike Erol Kantarci

  4. National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece

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Zema, N.R., Mitton, N., Ruggeri, G. (2014). Using Location Services to Autonomously Drive Flying Mobile Sinks in Wireless Sensor Networks. In: Mitton, N., Gallais, A., Kantarci, M., Papavassiliou, S. (eds) Ad Hoc Networks. ADHOCNETS 2015. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 140. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13329-4_16

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