Data Acquisition in Sensor Network Using an Autonomous Path

Abstract

Data acquisition in a wireless sensor network typically involves routing data from numerous sensors toward a static sink or a base station. To achieve this efficiently, mobile sink strategies have been investigated by numerous researchers. However, a thorough qualitative study of the mobile sink path has mostly been disregarded in the literature. As such no strong common qualitative measurement can be asserted regarding a particular technique against the others. This paper proposes a novice technique based on the space filling curve which produces a mobile sink path for an arbitrarily convex network shape.