Self-Organization Routing Protocol Supporting Mobile Nodes for Wireless Sensor Network

Abstract

In mobility-centric environments, wireless sensor networks are designed to accommodate energy efficiency, dynamic self-organization and mobility. In typical applications of wireless sensor networks, fixed sensor nodes are mixed with mobile sensor nodes in "hot areas". Also, as they move, network topology needs to be reconstructed by reacting upon the mobility of sensor nodes quickly. In this paper we proposed an improved protocol called "LEACH-Mobile" for mobile nodes to declare the membership of a cluster as they move, and to confirm whether a mobile sensor node is able to communicate with a specific cluster head within a time slot allocated in TDMA schedule. The LEACH-Mobile protocol achieved definite improvement in data transfer success rate as mobile nodes increased compared to the non-mobility centric LEACH protocol