Mobile-Agent-Based Adaptive Data Fusion Routing Algorithm in Wireless Sensor Networks
Hu Hai-feng Yang Zhen
Jiangsu Key Lab of Wireless Commun. College of Communications and Infor. Eng., Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210003, China
Abstract:in this paper, an energy efficient Adaptive Fusion Mobile-agent-based Routing algorithm (AFMR) is presented in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), where AFMR can provide energy efficient Mobile Agent (MA) routing algorithm for correlated data gathering. AFMR is used to not only jointly optimize over the costs for both data transmission and data fusion, but also evaluate the cost and benefit of the data fusion, in order to adaptively adjust whether fusion shall be performed for minimizing the total energy consumption when MA migrates to a particular node. Simulation results show that AFMR achieves better performance than existing MA routing algorithm including TSP and FMR from perspectives of energy consumption in a variety of correlated data gathering applications.