An Efficient Tree-Based Power Saving Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks With Mobile Sink

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) with mobile sink are expected to increase the flexibility for gathering information in large-scale sensing and detecting environments. Energy saving becomes one of the most important features of the sensor nodes to extend their lifetime in such networks. A novel tree-based power saving scheme is proposed in this paper to reduce the energy consumption in WSNs with mobile sink. We adopt a dynamic sorting algorithm to create a tree-cluster routing structure for the sensor nodes. The main goal of this scheme is to reduce the data transmission distances of the sensor nodes by employing the tree structure and multi-hop concepts. Based on the location of mobile sink, the distances between the sensor nodes, and the residual energy of each sensor node, the proposed scheme makes an efficient decision for creating the routing structure. The energy consumption is reduced and the lifetime is extended for the sensor nodes by balancing the network load. Simulation results demonstrate the superior performance of our proposed scheme and its ability to strike the appropriate performance in the energy consumption, network lifetime, throughput, and transmission overhead. In addition, suitable delay time and number of retransmission messages can be achieved for the WSNs with mobile sink.