Fluctuation control for many-to-one routing in wireless sensor networks

This paper presents a distributed and adaptive fluctuation control scheme for many-to-one routing(FCM) in wireless sensor networks.Unlike well-known topology control schemes,the primary design objective is to reduce the fluctuation which happens due to overload of sensors in a data collection tree.More specifically,an estimation model of a sensor available capacity based on the number of its neighbors is proposed.In addition,this paper proposes a parent selection mechanism by three-way handshake.With such model and the selection mechanism,it is ensured that the load of a sensor does not exceed its available capacity.Finally,an adaptive maintenance mechanism is proposed to adjust the estimation of a sensor available capacity as the network environment changes.Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the scheme.