A centralized multiple access scheme for data gathering in Satellite-Routed Sensor System (SRSS)

Satellite-Routed Sensor System (SRSS) has attracted attentions as a next generation sensor network system to realize data gathering from a large scale sensors deployment. In this system, a large number of sensor terminals send sensed data to the monitoring stations which are located in the different area via a satellite. With the help of satellite, it is possible to collect data from sensor terminals that are located in an area that has no physical infrastructure. Thus, SRSS is expected to provide many services such as real-time traffic control system and disaster detection systems by utilizing gathered data from large area. However, an efficient access control method is required to accommodate a large number of sensor terminals trying to transmit their sensed data to the satellite. Therefore, this paper proposes a novel data gathering method that can efficiently allocate bandwidth to the sensor terminals in need to transmit their sensed data. Additionally, an optimization to improve the efficiency of our proposed method is provided with mathematical expressions. The effectiveness of our proposal is evaluated through numerical results.