期刊名称:International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
印刷版ISSN:1550-1329
电子版ISSN:1550-1477
出版年度:2014
卷号:2014
DOI:10.1155/2014/964595
出版社:Hindawi Publishing Corporation
摘要:Balancing energy consumption and prolonging network
lifetime have been hot topics in energy limited wireless sensor networks (WSNs). It is generally known that multiple
sensor nodes collaborating with each other to perform tasks
are an important means of energy balancing. In addition, a
reasonable task allocation strategy is also an efficient method
for task performing and energy saving. Furthermore, in order
to save energy consumption, many WSNs are organized into
clusters. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a distributed task allocation strategy for collaborative applications (DTAC)
in cluster-based WSNs. In DTAC, the service abilities of sensor
nodes are first evaluated and then the sensor nodes are classified
into different ranking domains. Based on the service abilities of
cluster members, the service ability of each cluster is calculated.
A complex task can be first allocated to several clusters, and then
scheduled on collaborative cluster members. Simulation results
demonstrate that, compared with current related works, DTAC
is much more efficient for complex task processing in terms
of reducing energy consumption, shortening execution time, and
balancing network loads.