An Energy Efficient and Coverage Guaranteed Wireless Sensor Network

Abstract

In many scenarios, sensor nodes have to rely on a limited supply of energy (using batteries). To support long lifetime of wireless sensor networks (WSN), an energy-efficient way of operation of the WSN is necessary. In this paper, we propose a new controlled layer deployment (CLD) routing protocol to guarantee coverage and energy efficiency on a sensor network. CLD outperforms PEAS (probing environment and adaptive sleeping) and the TTDD (two-tier data dissemination) protocols in that it can guarantee full area coverage and connection. It can also solve the "cascading problem" which reduces the whole network lifetime. Finally, we show the results of the simulation to prove that the new protocol can use fewer sensor nodes for coverage and increase the lifetime as compared to the PEAS protocol.