A survey on communication and data management issues in mobile sensor networks

作者：Zhu, Chunsheng; Shu, Lei^*; Hara, Takahiro; Wang, Lei; Nishio, Shojiro; Yang, Laurence T.

来源：Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, 2014, 14(1): 19-36.

DOI：10.1002/wcm.1219

• wireless sensor networks (WSNs)
• mobile wireless sensor networks (MWSNs)
• survey
• communication
• data management

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) which is proposed in the late 1990s have received unprecedented attention, because of their exciting potential applications in military, industrial, and civilian areas (e.g., environmental and habitat monitoring). Although WSNs have become more and more prospective in human life with the development of hardware and communication technologies, there are some natural limitations of WSNs (e.g., network connectivity, network lifetime) due to the static network style in WSNs. Moreover, more and more application scenarios require the sensors in WSNs to be mobile rather than static so as to make traditional applications in WSNs become smarter and enable some new applications. All this induce the mobile wireless sensor networks (MWSNs) which can greatly promote the development and application of WSNs. However, to the best of our knowledge, there is not a comprehensive survey about the communication and data management issues in MWSNs. In this paper,focusing on researching the communication issues and data management issues in MWSNs, we discuss different research methods regarding communication and data management in MWSNs and propose some further open research areas in MWSNs.

• 出版日期2014-1
• 单位大连理工大学