Title: Configuring node status in a two-phase tightly integrated mode for wireless sensor networks

Authors: Di Tian, Zhijun Lei, N.D. Georganas

Addresses: Distributed and Collaborative Virtual Environments Research Laboratory (DISCOVER), School of Information Technology and Engineering (SITE), University of Ottawa, 800 King Edward Ave. Room 5-077, Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5, Canada. ' Distributed and Collaborative Virtual Environments Research Laboratory (DISCOVER), School of Information Technology and Engineering (SITE), University of Ottawa, 800 King Edward Ave. Room 5-077, Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5, Canada. ' Distributed and Collaborative Virtual Environments Research Laboratory (DISCOVER), School of Information Technology and Engineering (SITE), University of Ottawa, 800 King Edward Ave. Room 5-077, Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5, Canada

Abstract: In wireless sensor networks, one of the main design challenges is to save severely constrained energy resources and obtain a long system lifetime. Low cost of sensors enables us to initially deploy a large number of sensor nodes in a very high density. A potential approach to solve a lifetime problem is to schedule sensor nodes work alternatively by configuring some of them a low-energy, off-duty status. In a single wireless sensor network, sensors assume two main functionalities: sensing and communication. Most of the previous work addressed only one kind of redundancy: sensing or communication alone. In this paper, we prove: ||the communication range is twice the sensing range|| is the sufficient condition and the tight lower bound to ensure that complete coverage preservation implies connectivity among active nodes, if the original network topology (consisting of all the deployed nodes) is connected. This conclusion enables configuring node status in a two-phase tightly integrated mode. The experimental results show that it leads to more off-duty nodes in double domains than other two strategies.

Keywords: mobile networks; coverage preservation; network connectivity; scheduling integration; redundancy; wireless sensor networks; wireless networks; node status configuration; sensor nodes.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAHUC.2007.012436

International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, 2007 Vol.2 No.3, pp.175 - 185

Published online: 13 Feb 2007 *

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