Title: ADiDA: adaptive differential data aggregation for cluster based wireless sensor networks

Authors: Rabia Noor Enam; Rehan Qureshi

Addresses: Department of Computer Engineering, Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi 75300, Pakistan ' Department of Telecommunication Engineering, Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi 75300, Pakistan

Abstract: It has been observed in large scale dynamic cluster based wireless sensor networks that the size of clusters vary significantly in terms of number of nodes. In these networks, data aggregation at cluster heads do not adapt adequately to such variances in cluster sizes. In this paper, we propose a novel and an adaptive differential data aggregation (ADiDA) method that can minimise the complexity of aggregating large amount of data into small sized data packets. ADiDA: in addition to reducing the cost of redundant data transfer in the network, also optimally utilises the available space in data packets at each cluster head. We have analysed ADiDA on different types of sensing environments. The results have shown that ADiDA can reduce the payload size requirement to almost one-fourth of the non-compressed payload and the distortion percentage in aggregated data decreases by 16-41%, compared to the summary-based aggregated data.

Keywords: WSNs; wireless sensor networks; cluster based WSN; data aggregation; spatial correlation; variable sized clusters.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAHUC.2018.092656

International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, 2018 Vol.28 No.2, pp.103 - 119

Received: 16 Jun 2015
Accepted: 07 Mar 2016
Published online: 27 Jun 2018 *

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