Performance Evaluation of Mobile Base Station under different Network Sizes on Cluster-Based Wireless Sensor Networks

Authors : Kadir Tohma, Ipek AbasıkelesTurgut, Yakup Kutlu

Pages : 1-9

Doi:10.28978/nesciences.286025

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Publication Date : 2016-09-20

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :The position of the base station insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(BS); in wireless sensor networks insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(WSNs); has a significant impact on network lifetime. This paper suggests a mobile BS positioning algorithm for clusterbased WSNs, which considers both the location and the remaining energy level of the cluster heads in the network and evaluate the performance of the algorithm under different values of network sizes, including 100m x 100m, 200m x 200m and 300m x 300m. Simulations are conducted by using OMNeT++ and proposed method is compared with two different static BS positions, including central and external, on HEED protocol. The results show that mobile BS performs better than both central and external BS positions under all network sizes. Besides, the performance difference between the proposed method and the others increases as the size of the network increases, which demonstrates that the proposed mobile BS positioning also provides scalability. 
Keywords : Wireless Sensor Networks, Mobile Base Station, Network Size, HEED