EBDC: An Energy-Balanced Data Collection Mechanism Using a Mobile Data Collector in WSNs

The data collection problem is one of the most important issues in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Constructing a tree from all sensor nodes to the sink node is the simplest way, but this raises the problem of energy unbalance since the sensors closer to the sink node would have much higher workloa...

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Main Authors: Chin-Hwa Kuo, Chih-Yu Lin, Chih-Yung Chang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2012-05-01
Series:Sensors
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/12/5/5850