Abstract
We develop a novel information gathering scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) in which we consider n sensor nodes distributed randomly in a certain field to measure a physical phenomena. We desire to disseminate nodes' data throughout the network such that a base station will be able to collect the sensed data by querying a small number of nodes. We propose a data dissemination and collection scheme to solve this problem, and we also present simulation results and derived bounds of this scheme. (C) 2014 Published by Elsevier B.V.