Optimization of Wireless Sensor Networks using PPSS Algorithm

Abstract

In the development of various large-scale sensor systems, a particularly challenging problem is how to dynamically organize the sensors into a wireless communication network and route sensed information from the field sensors to a target system. The prime motivation of our work is to balance the inherent trade-off between the resource consumption and the accuracy of the target tracking in wireless sensor networks. Toward this objective, the study goes through a new energy-efficient dynamic optimization-based sleep scheduling and target prediction technique for large-scale sensor networks. We present a probability-based prediction and optimization-based sleep scheduling protocol (PPSS) to improve energy efficiency of proactive wake up. A cluster-based scheme is exploited for optimization-based sleep scheduling. At every sampling instant, only one cluster of sensors that located in the proximity of the target is activated, whereas the other sensors are inactive. To activate the most appropriate cluster, we propose a non myopic rule, which is based on not only the target state prediction but also its future tendency. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed approach is evaluated and compared with the state-of-the-art protocols in terms of tracking accuracy, inter node communication, and computation complexity . Index Terms—Energy efficiency, target prediction, sleep scheduling, target tracking, sensor networks. In a large-scale sensor network, hundreds or thousands of tiny sensor nodes are randomly deployed into a monitoring field to gather data. The complexity of computation and communication increases with the number of active sensor nodes tracking the target. The amount of energy used in the network is proportional to the number of active sensor nodes. It is best for sensor nodes to be arranged into collaborative m groups. Group collaboration should be limited to a tracking area around the target so that the communication and computation will be independent of the size of the network. Multiple nodes surrounding the target may collaborate and gather information. The tracking accuracy and performance is limited to the information in those sensors. In a large-scale sensor network, it is important to locate the target with high accuracy while consuming the least amount of energy. Some of the existing studies have focused on energy efficient methods to track mobile targets. Our objective is to propose a simple routing metric that is composed of the energy expenditure and battery power of a node. Therefore, the cluster activation phase has a great importance not only in minimizing energy consumption but also improve the optimized tracking accuracy.