Mobile Sinks in Wireless Sensor Networks: Challenges

Drastic development in wireless technology increased the demand for Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) applications for monitoring areas of interest. The revolution of mobile sink in WSNs, draws the attention from diversified fields like smart homes, environment, and military applications etc. The life time of the WSNs get extended with the use of the mobile sinks. In this paper we analyzed the challenges in wireless sensor networks, with the deployment of mobile sink on data gathering, network life time, security etc. Keywords ? Wireless sen