An RPL based Optimal Sensors placement in Pipeline Monitoring WSNs

Wadhaj, Isam; Thomson, Craig; Ghaleb, Baraq

Abstract

Compared to an ordinary sensor network, Linear Sensor Networks (LSNs) has many applications in a number of areas such as surveillance and monitoring of international boundaries for illegal crossing, river environment monitoring and roads monitoring etc. However, due to linear topology and single path transmission of data, problems associated with LSNs is also significantly high. A linear topology increases the challenges associated with network reliability, connectivity and efficient energy management for sensors and actuators. It is therefore important to overcome these challenges prior to communication and reliable monitoring system that can be achieved in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). This paper aims to investigate the linear placement of sensor nodes in LSNs using varying distance and its impact on energy consumption, packet delivery ratio, end to end delay, throughput and the Destination Oriented Directed Acyclic Graph (DODAG) construction time. The study is carried out using a uniform topology, where nodes are distributed linearly with increased distance, while the sink is placed at the end of the pipeline. Furthermore, the proposed study also fulfil the requirements of IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low-power and Lossy Networks (RPL) in LSNs. From the obtained results, it was evident that placing sensor nodes uniformly in LSNs at a distance of 10 meters provide optimum results in terms of Quality of Service (QoS).

Citation

Wadhaj, I., Thomson, C., & Ghaleb, B. (2021). An RPL based Optimal Sensors placement in Pipeline Monitoring WSNs. In Proceedings of International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Intelligent Systems: ICETIS 2021 (533-546). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85990-9_43

• Conference Name: International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Intelligent Systems (ICETIS 2021)
• Conference Location: Online
• Start Date: Jun 25, 2021
• End Date: Jun 26, 2021
• Acceptance Date: Jan 23, 2021
• Online Publication Date: Dec 3, 2021
• Publication Date: 2021
• Deposit Date: Mar 16, 2021
• Publicly Available Date: Dec 4, 2022
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 533-546
• Series Title: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems
• Series Number: 322
• Book Title: Proceedings of International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Intelligent Systems: ICETIS 2021
• ISBN: 978-3-030-85989-3
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85990-9_43
• Keywords: Internet of Things, RPL, Linear wireless sensor, uniform node placement
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2747130
• Related Public URLs: http://icetis.info/