P2P Data Management in Mobile Wireless Sensor Network

• Main Authors: Nida Sahar Sayeda, Faisal Karim Shaikh, Imran Ali Jokhio
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Mehran University of Engineering and Technology 2013-04-01
• Series: Mehran University Research Journal of Engineering and Technology
• Subjects: Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks; Peer-to-Peer; Data Transport and Management; Static Network; Mobile Network
• Online Access: http://publications.muet.edu.pk/research_papers/pdf/pdf774.pdf

The rapid growth in wireless technologies has made wireless communication an important source for transporting data across different domains. In the same way, there are possibilities of many potential applications that can be deployed using WSNs (Wireless Sensor Networks). However, very limited applications are deployed in real life due to the uncertainty and dynamics of the environment and scare resources. This makes data management in WSN a challenging area to find an approach that suits its characteristics. Currently, the trend is to find efficient data management schemes using evolving technologies, i.e. P2P (Peer-to-Peer) systems. Many P2P approaches have been applied in WSNs to carry out the data management due to similarities between WSN and P2P. With the similarities, there are differences too that makes P2P protocols inefficient in WSNs. Furthermore, to increase the efficiency and to exploit the delay tolerant nature of WSNs, where ever possible, the mobile WSNs are gaining importance. Thus, creating a three dimensional problem space to consider, i.e. mobility, WSNs and P2P. In this paper, an efficient algorithm is proposed for data management using P2P techniques for mobile WSNs. The real world implementation and deployment of proposed algorithm is also presented