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Shortening the Tour-Length of a Mobile Data Collector in the WSN by the Method of Linear Shortcut

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In this work, we present a path-planning method for the Mobile Data Collector (MDC) in a wireless sensor network (WSN). In our method, a tour for the MDC is generated such that the latency of delivering data to the sink is reduced. We show that the TSP tour covers all the nodes of the WSN. However, the latency for the TSP tour may be prohibitively high for delay-sensitive real-time WSNs. We reduce the latency by shortening the given TSP tour using a method called Linear Shortcut. We observe that the MDC need not visit the exact location of the node. It only need to be in the proximity of the node as required by the transmission radius. We present an algorithm that iteratively shortens tour-length and hence, reduces the latency. We term the resulting tour as Tight Label Covering (TLC) tour. Experimental results show that TLC tour reduces latency by a significant margin.

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  1. Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh

    Md. Shaifur Rahman & Mahmuda Naznin

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  1. Department of Information Engineering, Nagoya University, 464-8601, Nagoya, Japan

    Yoshiharu Ishikawa

  2. Department of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, 150006, Harbin, China

    Jianzhong Li

  3. School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, 2031, Sydney, NSW, Australia

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  4. Department of Computing and Information Systems, University of Melbourne, 3052, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Rui Zhang

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Rahman, M.S., Naznin, M. (2013). Shortening the Tour-Length of a Mobile Data Collector in the WSN by the Method of Linear Shortcut. In: Ishikawa, Y., Li, J., Wang, W., Zhang, R., Zhang, W. (eds) Web Technologies and Applications. APWeb 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7808. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37401-2_66

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