Deployment algorithms in WSN-A study

Abstract

In the emerging advances of communication technologies, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN)s, consisting of numerous sensor nodes, are extensively used in the various application areas such as, vehicle tracking, agriculture, military, forest surveillance, healthcare, environment and earthquake observation etc., The sensor nodes are provided with the smaller computing power, little memory, lesser battery power and slighter range of communication strength. These sensor nodes are to be deployed in a particular location to monitor the environmental system on the basis of applications of WSN. The complexity of deployment of a wireless sensor networks is depending on optimization and application requirements. The deployment of WSN is categorized as static, dynamic and energy aware node placement. This work is an extension of our paper “Analogy of Static and Dynamic Node Deployment Algorithms in WSN”. The present work provides the comparison between the different deployment algorithms of static, dynamic and energy aware protocols. The comparison of algorithms and protocols is achieved on the basis of different parameters like energy consumption; coverage of nodes, average distance between the nodes etc., The result indicates that, which deployment algorithm has the better performance. The main goal of this paper is to afford the knowledge for the best of static, dynamic and energy aware deployment schemes.