An Energy-Aware Coverage Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
Lijun Chen · Microelectronics & Computer · 2008
An energy-aware location-independent coverage control protocol for wireless sensor networks (EACCP) is proposed. Adopting the hierarchical clustering idea, EACCP elects the working nodes based on the average residual energy of neighboring nodes and its own residual energy parameters. Our simulation study and analysis demonstrate that EACCP not only provide the high quality of sensing coverage, but also has the good performance in the energy efficiency. In addition, EACCP can better adapt the applications with the great heterogeneous energy capacities in the sensor networks, as well as effectively reduce the control overhead.