A Distributed Algorithm for Data Collection in Low-Duty-Cycled WSNs

Abstract

In order to prolong the lifetime of WSNs, low-duty-cycled scheduling is a widely used strategy. However, there exists high latency with traditional routing algorithms. In this paper, we model the data collection scheme of WSNs to be a delay optimization problem and propose a distributed algorithm based on Network Utility Maximization. The proposed algorithm can distributed find an optimal routing to achieve minimal average end-to-end delay. The simulation results show that our algorithm performs better than the traditional shortest path algorithm on end-to-end delay with less control message.