Prioritized Degree Distribution in Wireless Sensor Networks with a Network Coded Data Collection Method 英文参考文献.docVIP

Sensors 2012, 12, 17128-17154; doi:10.3390/s121217128 OPEN ACCESS sensors ISSN 1424-8220 /journal/sensors Article Prioritized Degree Distribution in Wireless Sensor Networks with a Network Coded Data Collection Method Jan Wan 1, Naixue Xiong 2, Wei Zhang 1,*, Qinchao Zhang 1 and Zheng Wan 2 1 School of Computer Science and Technology, Hangzhou Dianzi University, 1# of NO.2 street, Xiasha Higher Education District, Hangzhou 310037, Zhejiang, China; E-Mails: wanjian@ (J.W.); xiongnaixue@ (N.X.); qinchaoz@163.com (Q.Z.); 2 School of Information Technology, Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics, No.632 West Fenglin Street, Nanchang 330013, Jiangxi, China; E-Mail: cloudcity66@ * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: magherozhw@; Tel.: +86-137-5715-8467; Fax: +86-571-8691-9111. Received: 3 October 2012; in revised form: 29 November 2012 / Accepted: 3 December 2012 / Published: 12 December 2012 Abstract: The reliability of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) can be greatly affected by failures of sensor nodes due to energy exhaustion or the influence of brutal external environment conditions. Such failures seriously affect the data persistence and collection efficiency. Strategies based on network coding technology for WSNs such as LTCDS can improve the data persistence without mass redundancy. However, due to the bad intermediate performance of LTCDS, a serious ‘cliff effect’ may appear during the decoding period, and source data are hard to recover from sink nodes before sufficient encoded packets are collected. In this paper, the influence of coding degree distribution strategy on the ‘cliff effect’ is observed and the prioritized data storage and dissemination algorithm PLTD-ALPHA is presented to achieve better data persistence and recovering performance. With PLTD-ALPHA, the data in sensor network nodes present a trend that their degree distribution