A study into prolonging Wireless Sensor Network lifetime during disaster scenarios

A Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) has wide potential for many applications. It can be employed for normal monitoring applications, for example, the monitoring of environmental conditions such as temperature, humidity, light intensity and pressure. A WSN is deployed in an area to sense these environmental conditions and send information about them to a sink. In certain locations, disasters such as forest fires, floods, volcanic eruptions and earth-quakes can happen in the monitoring area. During the disaster, the events being monitored have the potential to destroy the sensing devices; for example, they can be sunk in a flood, burnt in a fire, damaged in harmful chemicals, and burnt in volcano lava etc. There is an opportunity to exploit the energy of these nodes before they are totally destroyed to save the energy of the other nodes in the safe area. This can prolong WSN lifetime during the critical phase. In order to investigate this idea, this research proposes a new routing protocol called Maximise Unsafe Path (MUP) routing using Ipv6 over Low power Wireless Personal Area Networks (6LoWPAN). The routing protocol aims to exploit the energy of the nodes that are going to be destroyed soon due to the environment, by concentrating packets through these nodes. MUP adapts with the environmental conditions. This is achieved by classifying four different levels of threat based on the sensor reading information and neighbour node condition, and represents this as the node health status, which is included as one parameter in the routing decision. High priority is given to a node in an unsafe condition compared to another node in a safer condition. MUP does not allow packet routing through a node that is almost failed in order to avoid packet loss when the node fails. To avoid the energy wastage caused by selecting a route that requires a higher energy cost to deliver a packet to the sink, MUP always forwards packets through a node that has the minimum total path cost. MUP is designed as an extension of RPL, an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standard routing protocol in a WSN, and is implemented in the Contiki Operating System (OS). The performance of MUP is evaluated using simulations and test-bed experiments. The results demonstrate that MUP provides a longer network lifetime during a critical phase of typically about 20\% when compared to RPL, but with a trade-off lower packet delivery ratio and end-to-end delay performances. This network lifetime improvement is crucial for the WSN to operate for as long as possible to detect and monitor the environment during a critical phase in order to save human life, minimise loss of property and save wildlife

Keberkesanan program simulasi penapis sambutan dedenyut terhingga (FIR) terhadap kefahaman pelajar kejuruteraan elektrik

Kefahaman merupakan aset bagi setiap pelajar. Ini kerana melalui kefahaman pelajar dapat mengaplikasikan konsep yang dipelajari di dalam dan di luar kelas. Kajian ini dijalankan bertujuan menilai keberkesanan program simulasi penapis sambutan dedenyut terhingga (FIR) terhadap kefahaman pelajar kejuruteraan elektrik FKEE, UTHM dalam mata pelajaran Pemprosesan Isyarat Digital (DSP) bagi topik penapis FIR. Metodologi kajian ini berbentuk kaedah reka bentuk kuasi�eksperimental ujian pra-pasca bagi kumpulan-kumpulan tidak seimbang. Seramai 40 responden kajian telah dipilih dan dibahagi secara rawak kepada dua kllmpulan iaitu kumpulan rawatan yang menggunakan program simulasi penapis FIR dan kumpulan kawalan yang menggunakan kaedah pembelajaran berorientasikan modul pembelajaran DSP UTHM. Setiap responden menduduki dua ujian pencapaian iaitu ujian pra dan ujian pasca yang berbentuk kuiz. Analisis data berbentuk deskriptif dan inferens dilakllkan dengan menggunakan Peri sian Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) versi 11.0. Dapatan kajian menunjukkan kedua-dua kumpulan pelajar telah mengalami peningkatan dari segi kefahaman iaitu daripada tahap tidak memuaskan kepada tahap kepujian selepas menggunakan kaedah pembelajaran yang telah ditetapkan bagi kumpulan masing-masing. Walaubagaimanapun, pelajar kumpulan rawatan menunjukkan peningkatan yang lebih tinggi sedikit berbanding pelajar kumpulan kawalan. Namun begitu, dapatan kajian secara ujian statistik menunjukkan tidak terdapat perbezaan yang signifikan dari segi pencapaian markah ujian pasca di antara pelajar kumpulan rawatan dengan pelajar kumpulan kawalan. Sungguhpun begitu, penggunaan program simulasi penapis FIR telah membantu dalam peningkatan kefahaman pelajar mengenai topik penapis FIR

Multi-hop hierarchical routing based on the node health status in wireless sensor network

© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019. This paper proposed multi-hop hierarchical routing to monitor forest fire using wireless sensor network. The node health status is introduced in choosing Cluster Head (CH) in order to avoid route breakages caused by CH that burns off. CHs transmit their data to the closest CH which is in the direction to the Base Station. The performance of the proposed method is compared to the Leach, MTE, and the direct algorithm. The extensive simulation is done by NS2 with results showing that the proposed method outperforms others in term of the number of packets received, energy consumed, the number of nodes alive, and average end to end delay

Priority Based Routing for Forest Fire Monitoring in Wireless Sensor Network, Journal of Telecommunications and Information Technology, 2014, nr 3

Recently, forest fire monitoring system in wireless sensor networks has received much attention. The conventional scheme receives fire alert data quickly to inform about fire forest event. However, since two or more nodes may detect a fire, high priority fire detection data frequently collide. In this paper, a new forest fire monitoring system is proposed in order to reduce high priority fire detection data dropped rate, by specifying a high priority received data immediately after fire detection and just before the destruction by fire. Furthermore, the node only transmits high priority data to a node, which has a low possibility of destruction by fire for low end-to-end delay of high priority fire detection data. The simulation results show that proposed scheme can reduce high priority data dropped ratio and the end-to-end delay, and have less effect of wind direction compared with the conventional scheme

Clustering Based on the Node Health Status in Wireless Sensor Networks

One of the applications of wireless sensor network is the forest fire monitoring which has different characteristics from others. In this application, the connectivity of nodes should not be destroyed just because of nodes lose their energy or burnt in the fire. Since the wide area of monitoring, the clustering method is considered as the efficient routing to increase its scalability as well as reduce energy consumed of nodes. Many clustering methods which are mostly based on Leach protocol are proposed without considering the node’s failure. Here, we proposed the node health status as a parameter to select a Cluster Head and compared its performance with Leach, MTE and the direct algorithm. Results show that the number of packets received and the alive nodes of the proposed method are higher than others. Identically, it has the lowest average end to end delay which is suitable for forest fire application

Forest Fire Detection Using New Routing Protocol

The Mobile Ad-Hoc Network (MANET) has received significant interest from researchers for several applications. In spite of developing and proposing numerous routing protocols for MANET, there are still routing protocols that are too inefficient in terms of sending data and energy consumption, which limits the lifetime of the network for forest fire monitoring. Therefore, this paper presents the development of a Location Aided Routing (LAR) protocol in forest fire detection. The new routing protocol is named the LAR-Based Reliable Routing Protocol (LARRR), which is used to detect a forest fire based on three criteria: the route length between nodes, the temperature sensing, and the number of packets within node buffers (i.e., route busyness). The performance of the LARRR protocol is evaluated by using widely known evaluation measurements, which are the Packet Delivery Ratio (PDR), Energy Consumption (EC), End-to-End Delay (E2E Delay), and Routing Overhead (RO). The simulation results show that the proposed LARRR protocol achieves 70% PDR, 403 joules of EC, 2.733 s of E2E delay, and 43.04 RO. In addition, the performance of the proposed LARRR protocol outperforms its competitors and is able to detect forest fires efficiently

Routing and Medium Access Control (MAC) in wireless sensor network for monitoring emergency applications

This thesis was submitted for the award of Doctor of Philosophy and was awarded by Brunel University LondonIn recent years, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have been implemented in many applications including emergency applications. Emergency applications require different characteristics than others, such as robust communication, low energy consumption and minimum end-to-end delay. Routing and Medium Access Control (MAC) are two protocols that have been used by many researchers to achieve those requirements. This thesis mainly focuses on studying distributive clustering routing and MAC protocol for emergency applications. To design robust communication in emergency applications, this thesis has proposed a modified LEACH protocol considering the health status of sensor nodes. LEACH is a benchmark protocol employing distributive clustering-based routing with low energy consumption, however this protocol is not suitable for emergency applications. The health status refers to the condition of nodes, safe or in danger, with the danger status shows the high probability to be destroyed sooner because of external factors such as fire. The proposed approach avoids selecting the nodes in danger as cluster heads. Furthermore, efficient multi-hop communication is employed to minimise energy consumption. The simulation result shows that total data received, energy consumption , packet delivery ratio, and energy efficiency of the proposed approach are stable with an increasing number of destroyed nodes. Furthermore, a grid-based clustering approach with health status is proposed to further enhance energy constraint and robust communication. The proposed approach includes distributive clustering and incorporate constant number of CHs in every round. The remaining energy, the health status of node, and the distance to the centre of the grid are consided when choosing the cluster head. Simulation results have revealed that the proposed protocol has a significant effect on the time for first node to destroy due to energy consumption, an increase of 45% compared to LEACH. Furthermore, packet delivery ratio of the proposed approach is enhanced by 16% compared to LEACH. In order to reduce end to end delay, a priority-based grid Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) has been proposed. In this approach, traffic is classified into two categories: emergency traffic from danger nodes, and monitoring traffic from safe nodes. This scheme was implemented using three steps: formation of a new TDMA frame, the arrangement of slots and priority allocation. Simulations results showed an improvement of around 65% and 70% in end to end delay compared to Grid and LEACH approaches.Directorate General of Resources for Science, Technology, and Higher Education of Indonesia; the University of Ria

A review of forest fire surveillance technologies: Mobile ad-hoc network routing protocols perspective

Mobile Ad-Hoc Network (MANET) is a type of structure-less wireless mobile network, in which each node plays the role of the router and host at the same time. MANET has gained increased interest from researchers and developers for various applications such as forest fire detection. Forest fires require continuous monitoring and effective communication, technology, due to the big losses are brought about by this event. As such, disaster response and rescue applications are considered to be a key application of the MANET. This paper gives an extensive review of the modern techniques used in the forest fire detection based on recent MANET routing protocols such as reactive Location-Aided Routing (LAR), proactive Optimized Link State Routing (OLSR) and LAR-Based Reliable Routing Protocol (LARRR)

Journal of Telecommunications and Information Technology, 2014, nr 3

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