Energy-efficient connected coverage of discrete targets in wireless sensor networks Online publication date: Wed, 08-Apr-2009
by Mingming Lu, Jie Wu, Mihaela Cardei, Minglu Li
International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing (IJAHUC), Vol. 4, No. 3/4, 2009
Abstract: A major concern in wireless sensor networks is to maximise network lifetime (in terms of rounds) while maintaining a high Quality of Service (QoS) at each round, which includes target coverage and network connectivity. Due to the power scarcity of sensors, a mechanism that can efficiently utilise energy has a great impact on extending network lifetime. Most existing works concentrate on scheduling sensors between sleep and active modes to maximise network lifetime while maintaining target/area coverage and network connectivity. This paper generalises the sleep/active mode by adjusting sensing range to maximise the total number of rounds. Two distributed solutions have been proposed and simulation results confirm the efficiency of our solutions.
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