A Novel Approach for Establishing Connectivity in Partitioned Mobile Sensor Networks Using Beamforming Techniques

TL;DR

This paper introduces a deep learning-based beamforming method to enhance connectivity in partitioned mobile sensor networks, reducing energy consumption and maintaining data transmission by forming directional beams among isolated nodes.

Contribution

It proposes a novel cooperative beamforming approach combined with a cross-layer link cost method to improve connectivity and energy efficiency in partitioned sensor networks.

Findings

Achieves up to 30% energy reduction with beamforming.

Effectively restores connectivity in partitioned networks.

Maintains user throughput during partition healing.

Abstract

Network connectivity is one of the major design issues in the context of mobile sensor networks. Due to diverse communication patterns, some nodes lying in high-traffic zones may consume more energy and eventually die out resulting in network partitioning. This phenomenon may deprive a large number of alive nodes of sending their important time critical data to the sink. The application of data caching in mobile sensor networks is exponentially increasing as a high-speed data storage layer. This paper presents a deep learning-based beamforming approach to find the optimal transmission strategies for cache-enabled backhaul networks. In the proposed scheme, the sensor nodes in isolated partitions work together to form a directional beam which significantly increases their overall communication range to reach out a distant relay node connected to the main part of the network. The proposed methodology of cooperative beamforming-based partition connectivity works efficiently if an isolated cluster gets partitioned with a favorably large number of nodes. We also present a new cross-layer method for link cost that makes a balance between the energy used by the relay. By directly adding the accessible auxiliary nodes to the set of routing links, the algorithm chooses paths which provide maximum dynamic beamforming usage for the intermediate nodes. The proposed approach is then evaluated through simulation results. The simulation results show that the proposed mechanism achieves up to 30% energy consumption reduction through beamforming as partition healing in addition to guarantee user throughput.