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A Muthu Krishnan et al ,Int.J.Computer Technology & Applications,Vol 4 (1), 51-57<br />

ISSN:2229-6093<br />

required. There<strong>for</strong>e, it is essential to make a tradeoff<br />

between accuracy level and resource consumption.<br />

Data-driven approaches can be divided according to the<br />

problem they address. Specifically, data-reduction<br />

<strong>scheme</strong>s address the case of unneeded samples, while<br />

<strong>energy</strong>-<strong>efficient</strong> data acquisition <strong>scheme</strong>s are mainly<br />

aimed at reducing the <strong>energy</strong> spent by the sensing<br />

subsystem. However, some of them can reduce the <strong>energy</strong><br />

spent <strong>for</strong> communication as well. Also in this case, it is<br />

worth discussing here one more classification level related<br />

to data-reduction <strong>scheme</strong>s. All these techniques aim at<br />

reducing the amount of data to be delivered to the sink<br />

node. However the principles behind them are rather<br />

different. In-network processing consists in per<strong>for</strong>ming<br />

data aggregation (e.g., computing average of some values)<br />

at intermediate nodes between the sources and the sink. In<br />

this way, the amount of data is reduced while traversing<br />

the network towards the sink. The most appropriate innetwork<br />

processing technique depends on the specific<br />

application and must be tailored to it. Data compression<br />

can be applied to reduce the amount of in<strong>for</strong>mation sent<br />

by source nodes. This <strong>scheme</strong> involves encoding<br />

in<strong>for</strong>mation at nodes which generate data, and decoding it<br />

at the sink. There are different methods to compress data.<br />

As compression techniques are general (i.e. not<br />

necessarily related to WSNs), we will omit a detailed<br />

discussion of them to focus on other approaches<br />

specifically tailored to WSNs.<br />

In this paper, we propose a <strong>hybrid</strong> data-gathering<br />

protocol that dynamically switches between the eventdriven<br />

data reporting <strong>scheme</strong> and the data-driven datareporting<br />

<strong>scheme</strong>. The proposed protocol behaves as<br />

event-driven, meaning that an event of interest triggers<br />

data dissemination by <strong>sensor</strong> nodes. However, from the<br />

point at which an event occurs to the point at which the<br />

event becomes invalid, the <strong>sensor</strong> nodes detecting the<br />

event continuously send data to an observer, thereby<br />

enabling accurate analysis of the environment. The novel<br />

aspect of our approach is that not only the <strong>sensor</strong> nodes<br />

that are detecting an event of interest but also those nodes<br />

that will potentially detect the event in the near future<br />

become engaged in the time-driven data-reporting<br />

process. This capability enables data from potentially<br />

relevant areas to be proactively gathered without requiring<br />

observer intervention. As such, the proposed protocol<br />

accurately analyzes the environment being monitored<br />

using only moderate consumption of valuable resources.<br />

We envision that many real-life WSN applications will<br />

benefit from the proposed data-gathering protocol. For<br />

instance, consider a <strong>for</strong>est fire detection system. As soon<br />

as a fire breaks out, it is immediately reported to an<br />

observer because the <strong>sensor</strong> nodes in the burning area<br />

react to the rapid increase in temperature. By continuously<br />

receiving raw temperature data from not only the burning<br />

area but also the neighboring areas in which no fire has<br />

yet been detected but may soon travel, an observer is able<br />

to accurately identify where the fire originated, <strong>for</strong>ecast<br />

where it may be heading, and determine where the fire<br />

extinguishing operation should focus. Similarly, an<br />

earthquake detection system is able to gather advance<br />

readings of seismic waves produced both at the epicenter<br />

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and in surrounding areas and quickly raise an alarm <strong>for</strong><br />

earthquake-prone buildings.<br />

The contributions of this paper are twofold. First, we have<br />

developed an adaptive <strong>hybrid</strong> data-gathering protocol that<br />

allows a WSN to dynamically switch between the datadriven<br />

data-reporting <strong>scheme</strong> and the event-driven data<br />

reporting <strong>scheme</strong> based on node context; thus, it is able to<br />

more accurately analyze environments than the eventdriven<br />

data-reporting <strong>scheme</strong> and use less <strong>energy</strong> than the<br />

time driven data-reporting <strong>scheme</strong>. Second, we have<br />

evaluated the proposed protocol using significant<br />

simulation studies. One may argue that a combination of<br />

reactive and proactive data-reporting <strong>scheme</strong>s may not be<br />

new in the literature. However, the proposed protocol<br />

differs from those of previous works in that time and<br />

space domain variables are taken into account when a<br />

WSN adapts its data-gathering process.<br />

Related Works:<br />

Hybrid routing protocol (APTEEN) is proposed [4],<br />

which allows <strong>for</strong> comprehensive in<strong>for</strong>mation retrieval.<br />

The nodes in such a network not only react to time-critical<br />

situations, but also give an overall picture of the network<br />

at periodic intervals in a very <strong>energy</strong> <strong>efficient</strong> manner.<br />

Such a network enables the user to request past, present<br />

and future data from the network in the <strong>for</strong>m of historical,<br />

one-time and persistent queries respectively. But here<br />

every <strong>sensor</strong> node in the network participates in a<br />

proactive data-reporting process regardless of its<br />

relevance to an event of interest, which leads to <strong>energy</strong><br />

wastage and higher band width requirement, which in turn<br />

will increase the deployment cost.<br />

An Efficient Hybrid Data Gathering<br />

Scheme in WSN’, For time-sensitive applications<br />

requiring frequent data gathering from a remote WSN, it<br />

is a challenging task to design an <strong>efficient</strong> routing <strong>scheme</strong><br />

that can minimize delay and also offer good per<strong>for</strong>mance<br />

in <strong>energy</strong> efficiency and network lifetime. A new data<br />

gathering <strong>scheme</strong> is proposed, which is a combination of<br />

clustering and shortest hop pairing of the <strong>sensor</strong> nodes.<br />

The cluster heads and the super leader are rotated every<br />

round <strong>for</strong> ensuring an evenly distributed <strong>energy</strong><br />

consumption among all the nodes. The major drawback of<br />

this system is in clustering the nodes. Clustering needs to<br />

be done periodically to ensure the nodes connectivity to<br />

their cluster heads. Clustering is an <strong>energy</strong> consuming,<br />

bandwidth requiring overhead in denser networks.<br />

Directed diffusion is data centric in that all communication<br />

is <strong>for</strong> named data. All nodes in a directed diffusion-based<br />

network are application aware. This enables diffusion to<br />

achieve <strong>energy</strong> savings by selecting empirically good paths<br />

and by caching and processing data in-network. Though<br />

directed diffusion has high significance in <strong>energy</strong><br />

conservation, the frame work is highly complex in nature,<br />

which may not be applicable <strong>for</strong> different types of WSN.<br />

Being highly static in nature, involves higher overheads<br />

when applied in mobile networks, but the application<br />

demands protocol that endures well with MANETs.<br />

HEED is proposed to prolong the network lifetime and<br />

<strong>energy</strong> efficiency. In this paper [5], the impact of<br />

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