Efficient Deployment Schemes of Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

Wireless sensor networks are composed of a large number of sensor nodes with limited energy resources. One critical issue in wireless sensor networks is how to gather sensed Information in an energy efficient way since the energy is limited. In order to meet useful performance guarantees, efficient energy deployment strategies should be considered. This paper compares between random sensor deployment schemes based on fuzzy logics and a fixed node deployment scheme. Simulation results show that the random deployment scheme gives a better performance compared to the fixed scheme in terms of the number of nodes required to sense event in the sensor field.