TAE 1 : Technical Report .

Subject : Wireless Sensor Network .

Topic : Sensor Coverage in Wireless Sensor
Networks

Subject Teacher : Prof. P. S. Gade.

Date Of Submission : 11/07/2014

Submitted By : Krunal S. Raut (C-24)
Sixth Semester B.E. ETC-C


G. H. RAISONI COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
An Autonomous Institution under UGC Act 1956 &
Affiliated to RTM Nagpur University
Hingna Road, Digdoh, Nagpur
07104- 236383 ; 235220; Fax : 07104- 232560.

Department of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering


Sensor Coverage in Wireless Sensor Networks
ABSTRACT

Coverage problem is an important and fundamental issue in sensor networks, which
reflects how well a sensor network is monitored or tracked by sensor. In this
chapter, we survey the current works on coverage problem in sensor networks. Two
types of sensor coverage are investigated: area coverage and target coverage.
Combining with sensor development mechanism (deterministic, statistical) and
wireless sensor network properties (e.g. network connectivity, energy efficient and
fault tolerant for connectivity and sensing etc), various coverage problems have
been introduced and discussed in details. We focus on the most representative
problems in each domain and present a comprehensive review and analysis of
various existed algorithms, techniques.


INTRODUCTION

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have received significant attention of
researchers in recent years due to its wide range of applications such as military
surveillance, environmental monitoring, forest fire detection, healthcare and
other areas [Akyildiz02, Chong2003].

A wireless sensor network composes of a large scale of sensor devices (called
sensor nodes) equipped with sensor unit, a wireless communication unit, a
battery power unit and a programmable embedded processor.


The sensor nodes are capable of sensing, data processing, and communicating
with each other via radio transceivers. They coordinate with each other to
establish a network to remotely interact with the physical world, such as to
monitor a geographical region or a set of targets spread across a geographical
region, and to report sensed data to the monitoring center, which is connected to
the base station.

Wireless networks can be random or deterministic deployed in physical
environments to collect information from an area of interest in a robust and
autonomous manner.

Technology limitations of sensors could seriously affect the quality of service.
Stringent power supply of wireless sensor nodes is the most critical limitation,
because those nodes are usually powered by batteries that may not be possible to
be recharged or replaced after they are deployed in hostile or hazardous
environments .




Recently researchers have found that the significant energy saving can be
achieved by elaborate managing the duty cycle of nodes in WSN with high node
density and it can prolong the network lifetime. In this approach, some nodes are
scheduled to sleep (or enter a power saving mode) while the remaining active
nodes keep working.





The single area A is covered by only one sensor


CONCLUSION

In this, we investigate the current works on coverage problem in sensor networks,
and classify them into two categories: sensor area coverage and target coverage. We
focus on the most representative problems in each domain and present a
comprehensive review and analysis of various existed algorithms and techniques.