Consistent and efficient bootstrapping ring-based protocol in randomly deployed wireless sensor networks

Ring-based protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks are facing a major challenge on their bootstrapping phase since at the end of this step, all the nodes should be placed into one global consistent ring. Existing bootstrapping ring-based protocols form initially multiple consistent rings and propose solutions to heal these rings into a global consistent one. Our proposed solution avoids the formation of separated rings and forms directly one global consistent ring by orchestrating the nodes joining process and avoiding concurrent joining. Simulation results show that our approach ensures network stabilization in a short time and without consuming a lot of energy.