How to fine tune the route update parameters of a mobile sink routing protocol

Mobile sinks are proposed as a possible solution to the hotspot problem, which leads to the early death of the nodes close to the sink, due to the concentration of data traffic towards the sinks. However, the route updates employed by the source nodes to determine the position of the sinks introduce an overhead in terms of data reporting delays and energy consumptions. On the other hand, decreased frequency of route updates causes stale sink position information to be utilized for data packets which results in suboptimal data dissemination paths. In this paper, we investigate this inherent trade-off and provide an insight on how to fine tune the route update parameters of a mobile sink routing protocol. For this purpose, we define a system employing a simple routing protocol and determine the optimal operating points from the results obtained via simulations, under varying degrees of route updates and sink mobility.

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