A Lossless Distributed Data Compression and Aggregation Approach for Low Resources Wireless Sensors Networks
Abstract Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) have been as useful and beneficial as resource-constrained distributed event-based system for several scenarios.Yet, in WSN, optimization oflimited resources (energy, computing memory, bandwidth and storage) during data collection and communication process is a major challenge. Most of energy consumption (as much as 80%) for standard WSN applications lies in the radio module where receiving and sending packets are necessary to communicate between stations.This paper proposes an approach to achieve optimal sensor resources by data compression and aggregation regarding integrity of raw data.Data aggregation discarded a certain sensing data packet, which leads to low data-rate communication and low likelihood of packet collisions on the wireless medium. Data compression reduces a redundancy in aggregated data, which leads to save storage and sending only one small data stream in the bandwidthof communication.The performance of the proposed approach is qualified using experimental simulation on OMNeT++/Castalia. Theperformance metricswere evaluated in terms of Compression Ratio (CR), data Aggregation Rate (AR), Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR) and Mean Square Error (MSE) and Energy Consumption (EC).The obtained resultshave significantly increased the network lifetime.Moreover, the integrity (quality) of the raw data is guaranteed.