A Comprehensive Review on Coverage Optimization of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs)
Vishal Kumar, Sonia Goyal · Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research · 2025
In now a day wireless sensor networks (WSN) are used in various fields. For example, in the field of agriculture, healthcare, industrial automation, environmental monitoring and smart cities. There are various factors which defines the performance of WSN, some of them are coverage, connectivity, over-coverage and energy consumption etc. Now from these parameters coverage is an essential parameter of WSN which tells us that how well the area is covered. There are also some parameters which effects the coverage of WSN like sensor range, sensor lifespan, number of sensors, communication range. This paper offers a thorough examination of algorithms or methods used on WSN to enhance their coverage. We study different types of methods and algorithms like max, area strategy, geometric centroid of Voronoi diagram, particle swarm algorithm (PSO), harmony search algorithm (HSA), arrow search optimization algorithm (SSA), Harris hawk algorithm (HHA), ant army search optimization algorithm (AASO), adaptive Cauchy variant butterfly optimization algorithm (ACBOA) and many more.