A study on data coverage protocols for energy conservation in wireless sensor network
Maheshwari Marne, Utkarsha Sumedh Pacharaney, Nabeelanaaz Suri, Mohini Ghotekar · 2016
Wireless Sensor Networks constitute a wide range of applications related to national security, military, surveillance, health monitoring environment. The main constraint in wireless sensor network is its energy consumption and limited battery life of the sensor nodes. Coverage provides good quality of service but it is of crucial importance especially when combined with connectivity and energy efficiency. This paper provides different factors affecting the coverage along with some existing coverage protocols and a comparative study of it. The challenge is to introduce a robust distributed protocol that can provide more effective coverage as compared to existing protocols by allowing minimum number of sensor nodes to be in the active state in order to conserve energy thereby increasing the lifetime of the sensor node.