Reliable and Energy Efficient Target Coverage for Wireless Sensor Networks

A critical aspect of applications with Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is network lifetime.Power-constrained WSNs are usable as long as they can communicate sense data to a processing node.Poor communication links and hazardous environments make the WSNs unreliable.Existing schemes assume that the state of a sensor covering targets is binary:success (covers the targets) or failure (cannot cover the targets).However,in real WSNs,a sensor covers targets with a certain probability.To improve WSNs' reliability,...