MeMLO: Mobility-Enabled Multi-Level Optimization Sensor Network

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MeMLO: Mobility-Enabled Multi-Level Optimization Sensor
Network
M.C. Rajalakshmi1
, A.P. Gnana Prakash2
1
University of Mysore, Mysore, India
2
Deptof Studies in Physics, Univewrsity of Mysore, Mysore, India
Article Info ABSTRACT
Article history:
Received Jun 13, 2016
Revised Jan 20, 2017
Accepted Jan 30, 2017
The paper presents a technique called as Mobility-enabled Multi Level
Optimization (MeMLO) that addressing the existing problem of clustering in
wireless sensor net-work (WSN). The technique enables selection of
aggregator node based on multiple optimi-zation attribute which gives better
decision capability to the clustering mechanism by choosing the best
aggregator node. The outcome of the study shows MeMLO is highly capable
of minimizing the halt time of mobile node that significantly lowers the
transmit power of aggregator node. The simulation outcome shows negligible
computational com-plexity, faster response time, and highly energy efficient
for large scale WSN for longer simulation rounds as compared to
conventional LEACH algorithm.
Keyword:
Battery
Clustering
Network lifetime
Optimization
Optimization
Wireless sensor network
Copyright © 2017 Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science.
All rights reserved.
Corresponding Author:
M.C Rajalakshmi,
University of Mysore, India.
E-Mail: rajhar70@gmail.com
1. INTRODUCTION
With the increasing adoption of WSN in upcoming application like Internet-of-Things, the
awareness of the potential features and limitations are being consistently a point of focus among the research
community. A sensor node is a very miniature device that can sense environmental events and uses routing
principle to transmit the data to base station. As sensors are deployed in unmanned surveilled area, so it is
essential that such sensor should optimally operate even in adverse conditions too. In order to support such
operation, a sensor should have enough battery lifetimes, which is one of the restricted resources in them.
Apart from this, there are many reasons of energy depletions. The prominent reason is the process called as
data aggregation which requires a specific level of transmittance energy for each sensor node to forward the
data. Hence, there are various studies [1-2] that have focused on energy efficient clustering process for
enhancing the network lifetime. However, there are major pitfalls too in this. The secondary reason is routing
protocol in WSN. Among different forms of protocol i.e. flat, hierarchical, and hybrid [3], availability of
standard energy efficient routing protocol is extremely less compared to other routing techniques in WSN.
Among the energy efficient routing technique, LEACH protocol [4] is one of the most frequently used
approach for benchmarking in 95% of the research work. The prime reason behind this is LEACH is one of
the protocols that was tested on original MicaZ motes and has potential supportability of hardware circuitry
of the motes along with mathematical formulation for antenna theory. LEACH was tested both on hardware
as well as on computational based approach and hence its reliability score is top most compared to other
energy efficient protocols e.g. PEGASIS [5], TEEN [6], APTEEN [7], HEED [8], that were tested originally
from hypothetical or simulation viewpoint. Although, LEACH has many new variants but still none of the
variants of LEACH was testified on real-time motes [4]. However, LEACH too suffers from various pitfalls.
This paper presents a technique of energy efficiency and multi level optimization for enhancing the network
lifetime considering the mobility. Section 1.1 discusses about the background followed by Section 1.2 that

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discusses proposed system. Research methodology is discussed in Section 2 followed by Algorithm
implementation in Section 3. Result discussion is carried out in Section 4 followed by summary of this paper
in Section 5.
1.1. Background
This section brief the studies being carried out towards addressing energy problems in wireless
sensor network. Our prior study has already reviewed existing techniques for addressing power issues [9].
However, this section will present more updates on recent work being carried out and limitation associated
with it.
Adnan et al. [10] have adopted bio-inspired algorithm for performing clustering in wireless sensor
network. Although the outcome of the technique showed better energy efficiency compared to LEACH, but
the limitation of the study is its focused on small scaled network and the nodes could hardly sustain around
800 rounds of simulation. Another limitation of the study is that it is not applicable to multi-hop networks.
Study on similar direction of using bio-inspired techniques has been carried out by Seelam et al. [11] where
the authors have perform optimization using BAT algorithm. The experimental results shows better
throughput, reduced delay, reduced retransmission attempts, and minimal data drop. The limitation of these
techniques is its less focus on energy efficiency and more focus on communication performance. However,
discussing communication performance with energy factor is not highly convincing as sensors works on
radio-energy model. A recent work by Pei et al. [12] has performed an enhancement of conventional LEACH
algorithm tested on sensor network equipped with cognitive radio systems. The paper has uniquely presented
its mechanism to address the dynamics of sensor network topology that relates to energy consumption for
multi-hop transmission. However, the mechanism selects cluster head based on energy factor for which
reason the nodes cannot sustain more than 800 simulations round. Although, the outcome of the study was
found better than existing techniques but outcome was witnessed with steep fall of residual power after 800th
round, which is limitation for mission critical application in sensor network. Study on similar direction was
carried out by Udompongsuk [13] where the authors have introduced a statistical technique for selection of
clusterhead. The presented technique uses moving average over energy dissipation by the clusterhead. The
prime limitation of this technique is i) usage of moving average leads to more dependency on past routing
data, ii) usage of moving average may also lead to outliers if heterogeneous network is considered. Such
problems towards heterogeneous network were found addressed by Patil and Kulkarni [14]. The authors have
presented a dual layer of heterogeneity for computing energy dissipation along with consideration of
Received Signal Strength Indicator. Although, the outcome shows better efficiency but the technique doesn’t
have any forms of optimization, for which reason it can be quite computational expensive in nature. Gautam
et al. [15] have presented another clustering technique that uses Voronoi diagram as well as Ant system. The
limitation of the study is that the outcomes were not compared with energy efficient protocols in wireless
sensor network and the approach is more deterministic in nature and hence it has less chances of optimization
in future.
Meenakshi and Kumar [16] have carried out the study towards energy efficiency by enhancing the
conventional LEACH algorithm. Inspite of superior outcomes, the algorithm suffers from some critical
limitation i.e. localizing base station at the center, which is quite impractical. Neamatollahi et al. [17] have
considered multiple criteria for formulating cluster in wireless sensor network. The technique limits its usage
in homogenous network only. Exactly similar forms of study was also carried out by Wei et al. [18] where
the technique presented a unique clustering mechanism to support multihop data communication. However,
the study limits its selection process of clusterhead based on energy factor only. A unique technique of
unequal clustering process was presented by Yu et al. [19] that balance the energy required for unequal
clustering process in wireless sensor network. The study outcome shows better energy efficiency
charecteristics but limits from its applicability in small scale network only. Zhu et al. [20] have presented a
unique clustering mechanism for enhancing the network lifetime using Hausdorff distance-based clustering
process. The prime limitation of the study is that its outcome was not compared with energy efficient
techniques.
Hence, it can be seen that there are some major research work has been carried out towards energy
conservation problem in sensor network where majority of the techniques are based on clustering. Although,
the prior techniques creates a good based for upcoming study but problem still existing in the area of energy
efficient optimization approach, which is found quite in less amount in existing research work. The next
section outlines the contribution of the proposed study that attempts to bridge the research gap of energy
efficient optimization in wireless sensor network for enhancing the network lifetime.

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1.2. The Proposed Model
The prime purpose of the proposed study is to present a framework that has the capability to
implement superior degree of multi level optimization in wireless sensor network for the purpose of
enhancing the network lifetime. The prime contributions of the proposed system are as follows:
a. To formulate environment for multi-level optimization for enhancing network lifetime
a) To introduce a novel attribute called as Primary Optimization Attribute that performs filtering of
candidate nodes based on location, distance, residual energy, and neighbor nodes.
b) To introduce a novel attribute called as Secondary Optimization Attribute that considers relative
distance factors.
b. To perform selection of an aggregator node based on primary and secondary optimization attribute.
c. To formulate a condition of mobility of sink that collects aggregated data from aggregator node in
particular defined areas.
Figure 1. Architecture of MeMLO
Figure 1 shows the architecture of proposed MeMLO which addresses the problems of energy
dissipation in wireless sensor network. The proposed MeMLO is a continuation of our prior
techniques [21-22]. The next section discusses about the research methodology adopted for developing
MeMLO.
2. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
The design and development of our prior MLO algorithm [22] was total based on analytical
background. The target was to use the optimization potential of MLO algorithm for accomplishing an
enhanced network lifetime with efficient clustering mechanism. The technique also considers input parameter
with a probability that a sensor can become a aggregator node during consecutive cycle of data aggregation.
Even our prior work of Empirical Modelling of Energy Optimization EO-RTD [21] also is more focused on
clustering process, so it will also emphasize on the selection process of the core object, which is an
aggregator node. The development of the algorithm of the proposed system is done in analytical approach to
ensure better evidential ground.
2.1. Reason for Adoption
The design principle of our prior work EO-RTD [21] allows breaking the myth that a cluster head
should be only selected based on residual energy. The technique presented in EO-RTD [21] also provides
two conditions of clustering process i.e. where both the conditions allows assessing multiple parameters e.g.
location, energy, neighborhood, referential position, aggregator node-sink node distance, and different
aggregator node distance. The study outcome also exhibits better network lifetime and hence both EO-RTD
[21] and MLO [22] is an energy efficient clustering process.
2.2. Limitation
However, our prior model EO-RTD [21] and MLO [22] has not been tested over mobility aspect. As
many of the upcoming applications and research over wireless sensor network is considered based on
Algorithm for Multi-Level Optimization
Algorithm for Mobility Adoption
Primary Optimization
Attribute
Secondary Optimization
Attribute
location
distance
Energy
Neighbor
nodes
φ1
φ2
Dist(node,
node)
Dist(member,
sink)
Evaluate halt
time
Init Stoppage
point
Develop
Objective
Function
Aggregator Node Selection
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mobility, so our prior techniques may find challenge in such environment to operate effectively causing
further degradation of network lifetime. Figure 2 shows chema used in Proposed Study
Implement
EO-RTD
Algorithm
Apply it on
Mobility in
WSN
Extract
Limitation:
Energy
Introduce
MLO
Introduce
MeMLO
Enhance
network
lifetime
Our prior study on
optimization
Our last of
Multi-level
Optimization
Our proposed
Work
Figure 2. Schema used in Proposed Study
2.3. Methodology for MeMLO
A careful observation of our prior techniques will shows that it has enhanced network lifetime to a
large extent; however, it is limited to static nodes which will be less practical for futuristic application where
nodes are studied with mobility. Hence, the network lifetime and clustering operation introduced by our prior
techniques is now subjected for multi level optimization considering a single mobile sink defined for one
simulation area. It is meant for performing Mobility-enabled Multi-level Optimization (MeMLO) where rate
of data aggregation can be speeded up along with lesser consumption of energy. Hence the proposed system
is the enhanced version of our prior optimized techniques in WSN by incorporating mobility as well as QoS
efficient power factor. Following are the contributory points of proposed system:
a. Assumption: MeMLO considers presence of a single mobile node (i.e. sink), which stops at particular
defined location within simulation area called as stoppage, where aggregated data are transmitted from
clusterhead to mobile sink.
b. Optimization Theory: The incorporated optimization theory will be finding the objective function that
can minimize the halt time (It is a time taken for a mobile sink to be in its defined stoppage area).
The design and development of MeMLO mainly consists of a i) communication model, ii) clustering
process, iii) Selection of Clusterhead, and iv) mobility aspect of sink. The design of the communication
model is carried out with respect to the first order radio energy model. The study considers the mobility only
with respect to sink and other nodes doesn’t move. The design principle assumes that orientation of the sink
is carried out equally in equal interval of time on n number of location, which can be again customized by the
user. Customization will mean that for small area or for slower traffic, n could be limited to 1-2 location
called as stoppage. The duration spend by the nodes in the stoppage is called as halt time, within which
aggregated data is transmitted to sink from active clusterhead. The formation of clustering is quite simple in
MeMLO.
(a) Distance Computation from Sink (b) Formation of clusters
Figure 3. MeMLO Cluster Formation
Initially, the sink transmits a beacon to its adjacent sensors in order to receive all the distinct
information of other nodes that assists the sink node to compute the sensor located at greater distance. It does

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so by comparing all the individual distance with other sensors. In this clustering mechanism, the cluster
initiates formulation only from the node located at greater distance which is very far from the sink. This is
done intentionally in order to extend the coverage area of sink to maximum possibility. This operation also
ensures minimization of partitioned nodes if residing within simulation area. Similar process is repeated to
formulate many numbers of clusters. Based on MeMLO model, it also selects the neighbor density along with
the distance to ensure that cluster is formulated effectively with the presence of nodes. Figure 3 exhibits the
distance computation from sink followed by formation of clusters. A closer look into the clustering process
will also show that node-density as well as distance factor assists in the formation of the clusters.Once the
cluster is formulated the next step is to perform selection of the clusterhead. In this case, a cluster makes the
selection of the clusterhead on the basis of a cost function c that is assigned on all the sensors in simulation
area. The system performs computation of cost for all the sensors and based on the sensors with higher value
of cost is considered to be clusterhead. In proposed system, cost c can be defined as a matrix consisting of
elements information from both single and multi scale clustering approximation process. It will mean that
cost is a metric that has information about location, energy, neighborhood, referential localization, aggregator
node -sink node distance, and inter cluster head distance. Hence, more the size of information for one sensor
node, the probability of getting it elected as aggregator node is also more. However, this computation can
lead to selection of multiple nodes as aggregator node in one region. Hence in order to avoid it, all the nodes
with higher value of cost are also checked if they have also higher value of new cost factor calculated by
residual energy divided by distance between the sink and a sensor. The last stage is to implement the mobility
of the sink. The design principle considers particular location of stoppage in order to perform data
aggregation by mobile sinks. It is to be noted that there is only one mobile sink.
3. ALGORITHM IMPLEMENTATION
The development of the proposed MeMLO technique is carried out in Matlab with 500-1000 sensor
nodes distributed randomly over 1000x1200 m2
. The simulation time is kept at 200 seconds with 0.5 as path
loss exponent. The simulation analysis was carried over both constant as well as variable bit rate traffic with
IEEE 802.11 as standard MAC model. The system considers channel capacity of 250 kbps and 0.2 seconds as
channel sensing time. Data packet is considered for size of 2000 bytes with mobility of sink initialized as 50
m/s. The energy parameters considered for evaluating energy dissipation are initialized as 0.5 Joule as
transmission energy, 0.25 Joule as receiving energy consumption, and 0.035 Joule as ideal mode of power
consumption.
The description of the algorithm is as discussed below:
Algorithm for Multi-Level Optimization of Energy
Input: A (Simulation Area), nID (identity of node), TX (transmission range), S (Sink), Neighmax(neighbor
nodes), dAN_S (distance between aggregator node to sink), E (Energy)
Output: Selection of Aggregator Node (AN)
Start
1. init A, nID, TX, S
2. Sx, y= [(A + Sdist) x, (A + Sdist) y]
3. Neighmax= (n-1)
4. Compute Primary Optimization Attribute (POA)
POA=[(x,y)| dAN_S| E | Neighmax ]
5. Compute Secondary Optimization Attribute (SOA)
φ1=Neighmax (Eucdist (n, n))
φ2=Mnode. (Eucdist(S))
6. New_AN= [max (POA, SOA)]
End
The above mentioned algorithm takes the input of simulation area, number of nodes, transmission
range, and sinks position and implemented multi level optimization technique for enhancing the network
lifetime. The optimization is carried out by considering both primary and secondary optimization attribute i.e.
POA and SOA. The POA is an attribute that holds information about location of nodes, distance between
aggregator node and sink node, remnant energy of node, and maximum neighbor nodes. The SOA is an
attribute that holds two further matrices i.e. φ1 and φ2 which posses Euclidean distance between the
interacting nodes and member node to sink respectively. The last step is to select the sensor with maximum
value of both SOA and POA to be considered as an aggregator node. The algorithm mainly assists in

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implementing a novel optimization technique where selection of an aggregator node is done on the basis of
multiple parameters apart from residual energy. The steps used in developing the algorithm are as follows:
a. Implement the conventional technique [21] and [22] for optimization algorithm that takes the input
argument of battery and neighbor density for calculating the probability.
b. The algorithm then checks for presence of any aggregator node during the present simulation round.
c. The technique of MeMLO supports two level of optimization techniques i.e. i) Primary Optimization
Attribute (POA) and ii) Secondary Optimization Attribute (SOA).
a) POA performs selection of the aggregator node based on location, energy, and neighborhood
b) SOA performs selection of aggregator node based on reference location, aggregator node and sink
node distance, and distance from member node to sink.
d. Based on the maximum values of POA and SOA, an aggregator node is selected, which continues the
progress of data aggregation process.
e. Under this process, the proposed system significantly overcomes the clustering problems of LEACH and
enhances to multi-level optimization techniques.
Algorithm of Mobility Adoption
Input: n (number of nodes), node_loc (node localization), sink_loc (sink localization), c (cost), Eres (residual
energy), dn_s (distance from node to sink), ht (halt time)
Output: pkt (data packet)
Start
1. Init n, node_loc, sink_loc, pkt, ht
2. Estimate c=Eres / dn_s.
3. Evaluate halt time
4. Evaluate Objective function
subject to
End
The prime purpose of proposed system is to provide significant level of optimization for the prior
algorithm by incorporating more features of optimized clustering. The study brings more novelty by
considering a presence of a mobile sink which has infinite availability of resources and the most interesting
part of the study is use the feature of mobility of sink for enhancing the clustering approximation theory
presented by multi-level optimization. The study considers a uniform trajectory of a sink node from one to
another cluster in WSN. The algorithm considers that a sink can stop in nH number of halt point or so called
stoppages within simulation area. The coordinates of the stoppages are predefined. The algorithm work as
following:
The algorithm initially computes the profile of halt time.
a. Depending on the halt time, the algorithm initiates its tour towards the stoppages.
b. The algorithm the computes the cumulative time of journey to complete one simulation round of data
aggregation.
c. By doing this, the proposed system exhibits two features:
a) Advantage: i) Due to multiple stoppage, the rate of data aggregation increases, ii) lesser delay in
packet transmission, iii) significantly lowing of energy dissipation, iv) sink is free from energy
computation so energy-based calculations are completely free from it.
b) Disadvantage: Due to multiple stoppages, halt time as well as journey time of mobile sink may
increase.
c) Incorporated Solution to address this problem: Developed an objective function O that can
significantly minimize the halt time
d. Transmission of data pkt increased on multiple rounds and significantly enhanced network lifetime.

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Hence, it can be seen that proposed technique implements multiple level of optimization and is capable
of minimizing the energy consumption even considering the mobility of the sink node. The direct impact of
this scheme can results in better transmission rate as well as highly optimized network lifetime. The memory
consumption of the algorithm is not more than 9-11 bytes for one round of data aggregation and response
time is approximately 0.2 seconds on normal computing environment. The next section discusses about the
result discussion.
4. RESULT AND DISCUSSION
This section discusses about the outcomes accomplished from the proposed study with respect to
individual outcomes and comparative outcomes.
4.1. Individual Outcomes
The individual outcomes of the study are assessed with respect to residual energy, alive nodes, and
dead nodes. Figure 4 shows that residual energy for the proposed study degrades down till 2000th
simulation
rounds and then starts depleting its energy.
However, residual energy may not be the only parameter to judge the affectivity in clustering with
respect to clustering. Hence, the proposed studies consider evaluating number of alive and dead nodes for
5000 simulation rounds. The outcomes are highly positive to find proposed technique shows better
availability of alive nodes till 2000th
simulation rounds, which starts stiff degrading from 4000th
simulation
round onwards as shown in first graphical outcome in Figure 4 and Figure 5. Similarly, the outcomes of the
dead nodes per rounds shows increase of dead nodes in 4000th
simulation rounds. Hence, the study outcomes
shows better optimized network lifetime.
Figure 4. Outcome of Residual Energy for MeMLO Figure 5. Outcome of Alive Nodes for MeMLO
Figure 6. Outcome of Number of Dead Nodes per Rounds in MeMLO
4.2. Comparative Outcomes
The outcome of the proposed study is compared with the standard LEACH algorithm to assess its
energy effectiveness with respect to
The study outcome in Figure 7, 8, 9 clearly shows that proposed study provides a better mechanism
of clustering whose direct result can be seen in the energy efficiency. The proposed system has better residual

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energy conservation, more number of alive nodes of increasing rounds and exhibits highly minimized energy
fluctuation in comparison to standard energy efficient algorithm. LEACH was never meant for supporting
multihop communication system with higher dependency of sink to be located in center of simulation. Hence,
LEACH has serious design issues although it is one of the standard energy efficient hierarchical algorithms
till date. The proposed technique of MeMLO has higher degree of multi-level optimization involved in the
design principle that results in more flexibility in clustering process. The network lifetime is also found to be
significantly enhanced for 5000-7000 simulation rounds as compared to the existing optimization techniques
till date on energy efficiency in wireless sensor network.
Figure 7. Comparative Outcome of Residual Energy
for MeMLO
Figure 8. Comparative Outcome of Residual Energy
for MeMLO
Figure 9. Comparative Outcome of Alive & Energy Fluctuation in MeMLO
5. CONCLUSION
Energy is always the scarce resource in wireless sensor network and clustering is the most
frequently adopted technique to ensure the longevity of the sensor nodes. Till last decades there have been
massive literatures towards addressing energy efficient clustering mechanism. Out of such standards research
contribution, some techniques have received a significant recognition and are widely studied in relation to
energy efficient clustering. But, such existing standards suffers from i) lacks of broader scope of
optimization, ii) usage of too much complex algorithm that affects communication performance and
longevity of nodes, and iii) availability of lesser number of energy efficient clustering standards. The biggest
pitfalls of existing clustering mechanism is its impractical assumptions i.e. i) selection of sink on the basis of
residual energy only, ii) localizing the base station in the center of simulation (position dependency), iii) lack
of supportability of multihop communication in energy efficient hierarchical protocols. Hence, this paper
addresses all such significant issues by presenting a novel clustering technique that performs potential
optimization. Multiple criteria have been formulated for selection of aggregator node, which gives better
edge to energy conservation. Using first order radio model, the energy assessment shows that proposed
cluster optimization technique ensure optimal longevity of a sensor node.

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