Improving Lifetime and Coverage through Mobile Beacon for High Density Sensor Networks

Authors:
Jacques M. Bahi;Abdallah Makhoul;Ahmed Mostefaoui
Affiliations:
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Venue:
SENSORCOMM '08 Proceedings of the 2008 Second International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications
Year:
2008

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Abstract

The expected lifetime of any wireless sensor network is a critical issue as sensor nodes are powered by small batteries. One effective approach for energy conservation, especially in high density networks, consists on switching alternatively nodes in sleep/active modes, while ensuring at the same time continuous monitoring (i.e., coverage and connectivity). This approach is called activity scheduling. In this paper we propose a novel approach to achieve energy savings by organizing the sensor nodes into disjoint sets (rounds) which are activated successively. The key idea behind our approach is to exploit a mobile beacon, primarily used to localization purposes, to additionally constructs sets of active nodes. The simulation results we obtained validated the effectiveness of our approach in comparison to existing ones.