scholarly journals A clustering approach for error beacon filtering in underwater wireless sensor networks

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 155014771668179
Author(s):  
Linfeng Liu ◽  
Jingli Du ◽  
Dongyue Guo

Underwater wireless sensor networks are the enabling technology for the aquatic environmental monitoring and exploring and have attracted much attention recently. Due to the highly hostile and unpredictable underwater environments, some beacon nodes tend to move or be damaged. Therefore, the unknown nodes will be positioned with larger error, which abases the value of data collected by sensor nodes. In order to solve the beacon error problem, this article proposes an error beacon filtering algorithm based on K-means clustering. First, the coordinate of each beacon is calculated through an improved trilateration method, and then the beacon with the maximum positioning error is filtered out via the K-means clustering algorithm. The remaining beacons repeat the above processes until the distance error of each beacon does not exceed a preset threshold. The analysis of simulation results indicates that the error beacons can be accurately found and filter out through our proposed error beacon filtering algorithm (based on K-means clustering), and thus the localization accuracy is enhanced. Besides, error beacon filtering algorithm also has a provable low complexity.

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 1368 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luoheng Yan ◽  
Yuyao He ◽  
Zhongmin Huangfu

The underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) have been applied in lots of fields such as environment monitoring, military surveillance, data collection, etc. Deployment of sensor nodes in 3D UWSNs is a crucial issue, however, it is a challenging problem due to the complex underwater environment. This paper proposes a growth ring style uneven node depth-adjustment self-deployment optimization algorithm (GRSUNDSOA) to improve the coverage and reliability of UWSNs, meanwhile, and to solve the problem of energy holes. In detail, a growth ring style-based scheme is proposed for constructing the connective tree structure of sensor nodes and a global optimal depth-adjustment algorithm with the goal of comprehensive optimization of both maximizing coverage utilization and energy balance is proposed. Initially, the nodes are scattered to the water surface to form a connected network on this 2D plane. Then, starting from sink node, a growth ring style increment strategy is presented to organize the common nodes as tree structures and each root of subtree is determined. Meanwhile, with the goal of global maximizing coverage utilization and energy balance, all nodes depths are computed iteratively. Finally, all the nodes dive to the computed position once and a 3D underwater connected network with non-uniform distribution and balanced energy is constructed. A series of simulation experiments are performed. The simulation results show that the coverage and reliability of UWSN are improved greatly under the condition of full connectivity and energy balance, and the issue of energy hole can be avoided effectively. Therefore, GRSUNDSOA can prolong the lifetime of UWSN significantly.


The fundamental issue is framing the sensor nodes and steering the information from sender node to receiver node in wireless sensor networks (WSN). To resolve this major difficulty, clustering algorithm is one of the accessible methods employed in wireless sensor networks. Still, clustering concept also faces some hurdles while transmitting the data from source to destination node. The sensor node is used to sense the data and the source node helps to convey the information and the intended recipient receives the sensed information. The clustering proposal will choose the cluster head depending on the residual energy and the sensor utility to its cluster members. The cluster heads will have equal cluster number of nodes. The complexity is generated in computing the shortest path and this can be optimized by Dijkstra’s algorithm. The optimization is executed by Dijkstra’s shortest path algorithm that eliminates the delay in packet delivery, energy consumption, lifetime of the packet and hop count while handling the difficulties. The shortest path calculation will improve the quality of service (QoS). QoS is the crucial problem due to loss of energy and resource computation as well as the privacy in wireless sensor networks. The security can be improvised in this projected work. The preventive metrics are discussed to upgrade the QoS facility by civilizing the privacy parameter called as Safe and Efficient Query Processing (SAFEQ) and integrating the extended watchdog algorithm in wireless sensor networks.


Author(s):  
Surender Soni ◽  
Vivek Katiyar ◽  
Narottam Chand

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are generally believed to be homogeneous, but some sensor nodes of higher energy can be used to prolong the lifetime and reliability of WSNs. This gives birth to the concept of Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks (HWSNs). Clustering is an important technique to prolong the lifetime of WSNs and to reduce energy consumption as well, by topology management and routing. HWSNs are popular in real deployments (Corchado et al., 2010), and have a large area of coverage. In such scenarios, for better connectivity, the need for multilevel clustering protocols arises. In this paper, the authors propose an energy-efficient protocol called heterogeneous multilevel clustering and aggregation (HMCA) for HWSNs. HMCA is simulated and compared with existing multilevel clustering protocol EEMC (Jin et al., 2008) for homogeneous WSN. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed protocol performs better.


Author(s):  
Shrawan Kumar ◽  
D. K. Lobiyal

Obtaining precise location of sensor nodes at low energy consumption, less hardware requirement, and little computation is a challenging task. As one of the well-known range-free localization algorithm, DV-Hop can be simply implemented in wireless sensor networks, but it provides poor localization accuracy. Therefore, in this paper, the authors propose an enhanced DV-Hop localization algorithm that provides good localization accuracy without requiring additional hardware and communication messages in the network. The first two steps of proposed algorithm are similar to the respective steps of the DV-Hop algorithm. In the third step, they first separate error terms (correction factors) of the estimated distance between unknown node and anchor node. The authors then minimize these error terms by using linear programming to obtain better location accuracy. Furthermore, they enhance location accuracy of nodes by introducing weight matrix in the objective function of linear programming problem formulation. Simulation results show that the performance of our proposed algorithm is superior to DV-Hop algorithm and DV-Hop–based algorithms in all considered scenarios.


2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 155014771769198
Author(s):  
Dongwei Li ◽  
Jingli Du ◽  
Linfeng Liu

The underwater wireless sensor networks composed of sensor nodes are deployed underwater for monitoring and gathering submarine data. Since the underwater environment is usually unpredictable, making the nodes move or be damaged easily, such that there are several vital objectives in the data forwarding issue, such as the delivery success rate, the error rate, and the energy consumption. To this end, we propose a data forwarding algorithm based on Markov thought, which logically transforms the underwater three-dimensional deployment model into a two-dimensional model, and thus the nodes are considered to be hierarchically deployed. The data delivery is then achieved through a “bottom to top” forwarding mode, where the delivery success rate is improved and the energy consumption is reduced because the established paths are more stable, and the proposed algorithm is self-adaptive to the dynamic routing loads.


2015 ◽  
Vol 785 ◽  
pp. 744-750
Author(s):  
Lei Gao ◽  
Qun Chen

In order to solve the energy limited problem of sensor nodes in the wireless sensor networks (WSN), a fast clustering algorithm based on energy efficiency for wire1ess sensor networks is presented in this paper. In the system initialization phase, the deployment region is divided into several clusters rapidly. The energy consumption ratio and degree of the node are chosen as the selection criterion for the cluster head. Re-election of the cluster head node at this time became a local trigger behavior. Because of the range of the re-election is within the cluster, which greatly reduces the complexity and computational load to re-elect the cluster head node. Theoretical analysis indicates that the timing complexity of the clustering algorithm is O(1), which shows that the algorithm overhead is small and has nothing to do with the network size n. Simulation results show that clustering algorithm based on energy efficiency can provide better load balancing of cluster heads and less protocol overhead. Clustering algorithm based on energy efficiency can reduce energy consumption and prolong the network lifetime compared with LEACH protocol.


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