Mobile Sinks for Data Collection with Sink Trail Reactive Protocol in Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract — Wireless sensor networks are the grouping of tiny sensor nodes, which collects the information by sensing activeness from the surroundings similar lands, forests, hills, sea. In wireless sensor networks, using mobile sinks mobility rather than static sink for data collection is the new trend in present years. Current researches are focusing on moving patterns of the mobile sink to achieve optimized network performance, and also collecting a small area of sensed data in the network. In this paper we are going to discuss about the advantages of using mobile sink than static sink, mobile sink moving patterns, Sink Trail reactive data reporting protocol for collecting data using mobile sinks. Index Terms — wireless sensor networks, mobile sinks, reactive reporting protocol