Multi-Attribute Data Fusion for Energy Equilibrium Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks

作者：Lin, Kai^*; Wang, Lei; Li, Keqiu; Shu, Lei

来源：KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems, 2010, 4(1): 5-24.

DOI：10.3837/tiis.2010.01.001

• Wireless sensor networks
• data fusion
• multi-attribute fusion
• energy equilibrium
• fusion-driven routing

Data fusion is an attractive technology because it allows various trade-offs related to performance metrics, e. g., energy, latency, accuracy, fault-tolerance and security in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Under a complicated environment, each sensor node must be equipped with more than one type of sensor module to monitor multi-targets, so that the complexity for the fusion process is increased due to the existence of various physical attributes. In this paper, we first investigate the process and performance of multi-attribute fusion in data gathering of WSNs, and then propose a self-adaptive threshold method to balance the different change rates of each attributive data. Furthermore, we present a method to measure the energy-conservation efficiency of multi-attribute fusion. Based on our proposed methods, we design a novel energy equilibrium routing method for WSNs, viz., multi-attribute fusion tree (MAFT). Simulation results demonstrate that MAFT achieves very good performance in terms of the network lifetime.

• 出版日期2010-2-27
• 单位大连理工大学