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In recent years, wireless multimedia sensor networks (WMSN) have attracted considerable attentions because of the extensive applications of providing audio-visual information conveniently. However, the traditional routing protocols are not directly applicable to WMSN due to the disadvantages on real-time or energy cost. The routing based on combination of clusters and data fusion provides an effective approach to improve the efficiency of data transmission. Consequently, this paper proposes a novel data fusion-oriented routing protocol, which takes the degree of image difference into consideration when clustering. And meanwhile, the cluster-head is rotated periodically within a cluster, for the purpose of the establishment of data fusion tree which is responsible for the data transmission and redundancy elimination. The simulation results show that the proposal achieves a better performance on energy efficiency, network delay and loading balance, and simultaneously prolongs the network lifetime, compared with other typical protocols.
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The authors would like to thank the anonymous reviewers of this paper for his/her objective comments and helpful suggestions while at the same time helping us to improve the English spelling and grammar throughout the manuscript. And meanwhile, the subject was sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of People’s Republic of China (No. 61672297), the Key Research and Development Program of Jiangsu Province (Social Development Program, No. BE2017742), Jiangsu Natural Science Foundation for Excellent Young Scholar (No. BK20160089), and the Sixth Talent Peaks Project of Jiangsu Province (No. DZXX-017).
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He, F., Huang, H., Wang, R. et al. Data fusion-oriented cluster routing protocol for multimedia sensor networks based on the degree of image difference. CCF Trans. Netw. 1, 65–77 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42045-019-00012-y
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