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On the Problem of Unbalanced Load Distribution in Wireless Sensor Networks

Overview In multi-hop wireless sensor networks that are characterized by many-to-one traffic patterns, problems related to energy imbalance among sensors often appear. When each node has a fixed transmission range, the amount of traffic that sensor nodes are required to forward increases dramatically as the distance to the data sink becomes smaller. Thus, sensors closest to the data sink tend to die early, leaving areas of the network completely unmonitored and causing network partitions. Alternatively, if all sensors transmit directly to the data sink, the furthest nodes from the data sink will die much more quickly than those close to the sink.

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PublisherUniversity of Rochester File FormatPDF
Date PublishedAugust 2004
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