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DAO2: Overcoming Overall Storage Overflow in Intermittently Connected Sensor Networks


Abstract:

Many emerging sensor network applications operate in challenging environments wherein the base station is unavailable. Data generated from such intermittently connected s...Show More

Abstract:

Many emerging sensor network applications operate in challenging environments wherein the base station is unavailable. Data generated from such intermittently connected sensor networks (ICSNs) must be stored inside the network for some unpredictable time before uploading opportunities become available. Consequently, sensory data could overflow the limited storage capacity available in the entire network, making discarding valuable data inevitable. To overcome such overall storage overflow in ICSNs, we propose and study a new algorithmic framework called data aggregation for overall storage overflow ( \text {DAO}^{2} ). Utilizing spatial data correlation that commonly exists among sensory data, \text {DAO}^{2} employs data aggregation techniques to reduce the overflow data size while minimizing the total energy consumption in data aggregation. At the core of our framework are two new graph theoretical problems that have not been studied. We refer to them as traveling salesmen placement problem ( \text {TSP}^{2} ) and quota traveling salesmen placement problem (Q- \text {TSP}^{2} ). Different from the well-known multiple traveling salesman problem (mTSP) and its variants, which mainly focus on the routing of multiple salesmen initially located at fixed locations, \text {TSP}^{2} and Q- \text {TSP}^{2} must decide the placement as well as the routing of the traveling salesmen. We prove that both problems are NP-hard and design approximation, heuristic, and distributed algorithms. Our algorithms outperform the state-of-the-art data aggregation work with base stations by up to 71.8% in energy consumption.
Published in: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking ( Volume: 31, Issue: 6, December 2023)
Page(s): 3143 - 3158
Date of Publication: 22 May 2023

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I. Introduction

Overall Storage Overflow. Sensor networks have been deployed to tackle some of the most fundamental problems facing human beings, such as disaster warnings, climate change, and renewable energy. These emerging scientific applications include underwater or ocean sensor networks [9], [21], [26], [33], [41], [58], wind and solar harvesting [32], [38], seismic sensor networks [40], [53], and monitoring of volcano eruption and glacial melting [17], [45]. One common characteristic of these applications is that they are all deployed in challenging environments, such as in remote or inhospitable regions or under extreme weather, to continuously collect large volumes of data for a long period of time.

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