Congestion control-based sink MOBility pattern for data gathering optimization in WSN

Research in the field of Wireless Sensor Networks aims to develop protocols ensuring minimal energy dissipation. In this work, we propose a lightweight congestion control based sink mobility solution to improve data gathering that considers jointly energy and memory constraints. Thus, we propose a mechanism to avoid and resolve situations when nodes may not receive new messages because of buffer saturation. This can causes data loss and energy waste while retransmitting non-received data by the source node. Indeed, our model moves the sink close to the congested nodes to alleviate their queues once a congestion risk was detected. The performances of our approach were approved by intensive simulations. Obtained results proved that the network lifetime achieved by our strategy is two to five times better than that reached by comparative approaches. We note also a considerable improvement in packet delivery ratio and a high adaptability to increased data traffic.