A multisensor data fusion strategy for path selection in Internet-of-Things oriented wireless sensor network (WSN)

To give the complete description of an environment or to take a robust decision, a number of observations are collected and combined from multiple sensor nodes. The process of combining and analyzing the observations is called multisensor data fusion. The fusion is used to produce more consistent, accurate, and useful information rather than provided by any individual sensor node. Data fusion finds wide application in many areas of such as object recognition, wireless sensor network, image processing, environment mapping, and localization. Nowadays, the Internet of Things (IoT) utilizes wireless sensor network (WSN) as a necessary platform for data sensing and communication. For efficiency, data fusion is performed on the sensed sample collected by the sensor nodes. However, fusion of the network parameters is also essential to select an appropriate sensor node for the forwarding of data. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a multisensor data fusion (MDF) strategy that performs fusion of the collected network parameters like bandwidth and centrality for the selection of an appropriate path. Extensive simulations were made, and related results showed that our proposed scheme has a better performance compared with other schemes in our simulated scenarios.