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\chapter{Wireless Sensor Networks}
\label{ch1}
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\section{Introduction}
\label{ch1:sec:01}
The wireless networking has been receiving more attention and fast growth in the last decade. The growing demand for the use of wireless applications and emerging the wireless devices such as portable computers, cellular phones, and personal digital assistants (PDAs) have been led to develop different infrastructures of wireless networks. The wireless networks can be classified into two classes based on network architecture~\cite{ref154,ref155}: Infrastructure-based networks that consists of a fixed network structure such as cellular networks and wireless local-area networks
(WLANs); and Infrastructureless networks that constructed dynamically by the cooperation of the wireless nodes in the network, where each node capable of sending the packets and taking the decision based on the network status. Examples for such type of networks include mobile ad hoc networks and wireless sensor networks. Figure~\ref{WNT} shows the taxonomy of wireless networks.

\begin{figure}[h!]
\centering
%\includegraphics[scale=0.4]{Figures/ch1/WNT.eps} 
\includegraphics[scale=0.5]{Figures/ch1/WSNT.jpg} 
\caption{ The taxonomy of wireless networks.}
\label{WNT}
\end{figure}

In recent years, there is increasing interest in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) by many researchers around the world. This extensive study on WSNs led to consider it as on of the most researched fields in the last decade. It represents a special case of the Ad Hoc networks. Recent advances in wireless networking, Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS), and embedded computing technologies, which have led to construct low-cost, small-sized, and low-power sensor nodes that can perform detection, computation, and data communication of surrounding environment. A WSN includes a large number of small, limited-power sensors that can sense, process, and transmit data over a wireless communication. They communicate with each other by using multi-hop wireless communications and cooperate together to monitor the area of interest, so that each measured data can be reported to a monitoring center called sink for further analysis~\cite{ref1,ref2}. The WSN receives the orders from the end user by means of sink to specify data aggregation, computation and deliver missions to wireless sensors, after that the sensed measurements can be received from the WSN by the sink~\cite{ref3}. The cooperation among the wireless sensor nodes in WSNs has been led to several advantages over the traditional wireless ad-hoc networks, like self-organization, rapid deployment, flexibility, and inherent intelligent-processing capability~\cite{ref5}.


\section{Wireless Sensor Network Architecture} 
\label{ch1:sec:02}
In a typical WSN architecture, the basic element is a typical wireless sensor node that composed of four major units~\cite{ref17,ref18}: sensing unit, computation unit, communication unit, and power unit. In addition, there are three optional units, which can be combined with the sensor node such as: localization system, mobilizer, and power generator. Figure~\ref{twsn} shows the components of a typical wireless sensor node~\cite{ref17}.

\begin{figure}[h!]
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.5]{Figures/ch1/twsn2.pdf} 
\caption{ The components of a typical wireless sensor node.}
\label{twsn}
\end{figure}

\begin{enumerate} [(I)]
\item \textbf{Sensing Unit:} consists of two main parts: sensors and analog to digital converters (ADCs). It responsible of sensing the physical phenomena and produce the analog signals to the ADC so as to convert it to digital data, and sends it to the computation unit.
\item \textbf{Computation Unit:} The main purpose of this unit is to manage and manipulate the instructions that related to sensing, communication, and self-organization, which make the sensor node cooperates with other sensor nodes in order to perform the allocated sensing tasks. It composed of a processor chip, an active short-term memory for storing the sensed data, an internal flash memory for storing program instructions, and an internal timer.
\item \textbf{Communication Unit:} It is responsible of all data transmission and reception of the sensor node that performed by the transceiver circuitry. A transceiver circuit composed of a mixer, frequency synthesizer, voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO), phase-locked loop (PLL), demodulator, and power amplifiers, all of which consume valuable power~\cite{ref19}.
\item \textbf{Power Unit:} This unit represents the most significant part in wireless sensor node.  It supplies the other units by the needed power. 

\end{enumerate}

Furthermore, additional components can be incorporated into wireless sensor node and according to the application requirements, such as  a localization system, a power generator, and a mobilizer~\cite{ref17,ref19}. These components are showed by the dashed boxes in figure~\ref{twsn}.

\begin{enumerate} [(I)]         

\item \textbf{Localization System:} It is important that the wireless sensor node equipped with a location finding system because it is necessary for many WSN applications. It is required by routing algorithms and sensing coverage algorithms, which are needing information about the location of the wireless sensor nodes. The location finding system composed of a Global Positioning System (GPS) or a discovery algorithm that executes a localization systems to provides information about the location of wireless sensor node using distributed computation.

\item \textbf{Mobilizer:} The mobility function sometimes needed in many applications to move the wireless sensor node from one location to another so as to perform a certain task in WSN, so it will be necessary that the wireless sensor node equipped with the mobilizer system for such applications. A high energy consumption is needed to support the mobility in wireless sensor node, and it should be supported efficiently. The movement of wireless sensor node is controlled by the mobility function with cooperation with the sensing unit and the computation unit .

\item \textbf{Power Generator:} Several WSN applications need to operate for a longer time, so it is essential to equip the wireless sensor node with additional power source in order to prolong the network lifetime. The better energy source to generate the power for outdoor applications is a solar cells. An another power harvesting mechanisims~\cite{ref20,ref21}  for thermal, motion, vibration, micro water flow, Biological, pressure gradients, and electromagnetic radiation energy harvesting can be used that yield increasing power output to extend the network lifetime. 
\end{enumerate}

The TinyOS has been used as an operating system in wireless sensor node. It is developed by the university of California, Berkeley and designed to work on platforms with limited storage and processing power.

A typical WSN architecture consists of a set of a typical wireless sensor nodes, which are capable of sensing the phenomenon of interest around it such as fire in the forest (see~figure~\ref{wsn}) and then send the sensed data to a controller node called a sink. One or more sink in WSN are responsible for collecting and processing the sensed data by the wireless sensors, and then send it through the Internet to the end user. 
\begin{figure}[h!]
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.9]{Figures/ch1/wsn.jpg} 
\caption{ Wireless sensor network architecture.}
\label{wsn}
\end{figure}


\section{Types of Wireless Sensor Networks} 
\label{ch1:sec:03}
According to the physical phenomena for which the WSN is developed, several WSNs are deployed on the ground, underground and underwater, which suffer from different conditions and challenges. WSNs can be classified into six types, where five types of them presented in~\cite{ref4,ref5} and we added the sixth type. Figure~\ref{wsnt} gives an examples for WSNs types.
\begin{figure}[h!]
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.5]{Figures/ch1/typesWSN.pdf} 
\caption{Examples for types of WSNs}
\label{wsnt}
\end{figure} 

\begin{enumerate}[(I)]

\item \textbf{Terrestrial WSNs:}
The wireless sensor nodes are deployed over the land constructing a network of hundreds to thousands of sensor devices. Several applications are used terrestrial WSNs such as physical environmental sensing and monitoring, industrial monitoring, and surface explorations. The main challenges in this type of WSNs are ensuring coverage and connectivity with removing redundancy, energy-efficient routing, data communication reduction, balancing energy consumption, energy-efficient data aggregation. The work in this dissertation concentrate on this type of WSNs.

\item \textbf{Underground WSNs:} 
The wireless sensor nodes are deployed over caves, mines, or underground and communicate through soil~\cite{ref9,ref10}. The most important applications in underground WSNs are structural monitoring, agriculture monitoring, landscape management, underground environment monitoring of soil, water or mineral and military border monitoring. The essential challenges of underground WSNs are the high levels of attenuation and signal loss in communication, so it needs a certain type of devices so as to provide a robust wireless communication underground, menace to devices come from  unsuitable underground conditions, replace or  recharge the battery seems to be impossible, and the WSN deployment is high costly. 

\item \textbf{Underwater WSNs:} 
A WSN is composed of a wireless sensor nodes deployed under the water such as the ocean~\cite{ref11,ref12}. There are many challenges should be faced in this type of WSN such as: the high cost of the underwater sensor devices; underwater wireless communication has limited bandwidth, high latency, signal fading, and long propagation delay problems; sparse deployment in which the wireless sensors should be able to self-organized to adapt with various condition of the ocean environment; and the limited power of the wireless sensor node battery as well as it is impossible or difficult to replace or recharge it led to look for about energy efficient underwater wireless communication mechanisms. The main applications, which are used by underwater WSNs are seismic monitoring, disaster prevention monitoring, underwater robotics, pollution monitoring, equipment monitoring, and undersea surveillance and exploration. 

\item \textbf{Multimedia WSNs:} 
It consists of inexpensive wireless sensor devices supplied with CMOS cameras or  microphones devices, deployed in a pre-guided way to ensure the coverage, where the multimedia WSN capable of retrieve the audio, vidio, and image contents from the physical environment~\cite{ref13,ref14,ref15}. The multimedia data such as images, videos, and sounds can be stored by these wireless sensor devices. The multimedia WSN contributed in improving some existing WSN applications such as tracking and monitoring.  The main challenges in multimedia WSN include:  the processing, filtering, and compressing the multimedia data;  the requested bandwidth and high energy consumption; Quality-of-Service provisioning is very difficult because of the link capacity and delays; it should combine different wireless techniques; energy-efficient cross-layer design; It needs flexible architecture to support various applications; and the deployment is based on the multimedia devices coverage. 

\item \textbf{Mobile WSNs:} 
A network composed of a mobile sensor nodes that can self-moving and reacting for the physical phenomena~\cite{ref16}. The mobile sensor node is self-organized and it is capable to replace its position autonomously. In addition, it is able to sense, process, and communicate with other mobile sensors. There are many challenges that should be faced in mobile WSNs such as: maintaining a sufficient sensing coverage
and connectivity; the self-organization; the navigation and controlling mobile sensors; mobility management; processing and distributing in WSN; location determination with mobility; and minimizing the energy consumption especially during the movement. The mobile WSN applications are environment, habitat, and underwater monitoring; target tracking; military surveillance; and search and rescue. The mobile WSNs can provide a higher coverage ratio and connectivity compared with static sensors.

\item \textbf{Flying WSNs:} 
A network consists of a low cost wireless sensor nodes, which are equipped with a Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) that can fly autonomously or can be operated remotely without intervention of any human personnel~\cite{ref6,ref7}.  The general objective of this type of WSN is to retrieve the information from some locations that it is difficult to access it.  For example, establishing an ad hoc network connection between rescuers and disaster victims over airborne relays or surveying an area from the air. Flying WSN provides a remote sensing and wireless networking platforms that collect the data from local sensors or other sources, and send the collected information over airborne wireless relays to a ground station. Using Flying WSNs leads to new developments for both military and civilian applications due to their flexibility, versatility, easy installation and the operating low cost~\cite{ref8}. The applications are search and destroy operations, disaster monitoring, relay for ad hoc networks, wind estimation, managing wildfire, border surveillance, remote sensing and traffic monitoring. The main challenges are constructing a lightweight MAV capable of flight;  the wireless communication; designing a software protocols  to achieve semi-autonomous flight; and combining all the subsystems such as  propulsion, flight control, and wireless networking into a flying WSN.

\end{enumerate}


\section{Wireless Sensor Network Applications}
\label{ch1:sec:04}
The high development in WSNs led to extensive study on different characteristics of it. However, the WSN has been applied with concentrating on various applications. In this section, we demonstrated a different academic and commercial applications that developed for WSNs. The WSN composed of various types of sensors such as~\cite{ref17,ref19}: thermal, seismic, magnetic, visual, infrared, acoustic, and radar, which are capable of observing a different physical conditions such as: temperature, humidity, pressure, speed, direction, movement, light, soil makeup, noise levels, the presence or absence of certain kinds of objects, and mechanical stress levels on attached objects. So, There are a wide range of WSN applications and these applications can be classified into five classes~\cite{ref22}. Figure~\ref{WSNAP} shows classification of WSN applications. 

\begin{figure}[h!]
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.4]{Figures/ch1/WSNAP.eps} 
\caption{Classification of WSN applications}
\label{WSNAP}
\end{figure}

\begin{enumerate}[(I)]

\item \textbf{Health-care Applications:} There is increasing interest and extensive research in the health-care applications. Two types of health-care systems are recognized~\cite{ref22}: vital status monitoring and remote health-care surveillance. In vital status monitoring applications, Patients are wearing the sensors in order to oversee the state of their health and to allow medical staff to respond efficiently.The most general used vital signs are ECG, pulse oximetry, body temperature, heart rate, blood pressure~\cite{ref27}. These applications includes:  mass-casualty disaster monitoring, vital sign monitoring in hospitals,  and sudden fall or epilepsy seizure detection. On the other hand, remote health-care surveillance is related to the health services that do not require constant presence of health care. These applications includes: elderly monitoring; providing support to a physically impaired person; gather clinically relevant information for rehabilitation supervision~\cite{ref28}; location tracking and medication intake monitoring~\cite{ref27}.


\item \textbf{ Environment and agriculture Applications}
The increasing development in WSNs led to use it extensively for monitoring the environment and agriculture. There are several WSNs applications have developed to the precision agriculture, cattle monitoring and environmental monitoring.

Precision agriculture refereed to the science of using the innovative and modern technology to improve the crop production, where, the WSNs are the main technology for developing of precision agriculture~\cite{ref29}. Those technology contributes in increasing the agricultural yields, improving quality, and reducing costs whilst decreasing the damaging impact for the environment. The wireless sensors are distributed over the target feild  so as to monitor the main parameters such as~\cite{ref22}: soil moisture, atmospheric temperature, creating a decision support system.   The wireless sensors can be used in agricultural services like Irrigation, fertilization,  pest control,  animal and pastures monitoring, horticulture(e.g., greenhouse and viticulture)~\cite{ref30}. 

In cattle monitoring applications, the WSN used to livestock control and monitoring such as: virtual fencing for extensive grazing systems, animal behavior study, health monitoring, to detect disease breakouts, to localize them and to control end-product quality (meat, milk).

Various WSN applications for environmental monitoring have been used in coastline erosion,  air quality monitoring, safe drinking water and contamination control~\cite{ref22}.

\item \textbf{Public safety and military systems Applications}
The WSNs can be incorporated into  military command, control, communications, computing, intelligence,
surveillance, reconnaissance, and targeting systems. It estimates the unpredictable events such as  natural disasters and threats as well as some of the military WSN applications keep under surveillance friendly forces, equipment, and ammunition; battlefield surveillance; reconnaissance of opposing forces and terrain; targeting; battle damage assessment; and nuclear, biological, and chemical (NBC) attack detection and reconnaissance~\cite{ref19}. According to figure~\ref{WSNAP}, the public safety and military applications are categorized into active intervention and passive supervision~\cite{ref22}. In active intervention systems, the wireless sensors are portable with the agents and is devoted to the security of the team activities. During the work of the team, the leader will monitor the agents situation and the environmental impact factors. The main applications includes: emergency rescue teams, miners and soldiers. In  passive supervision systems, the wireless static sensors are scattered over a large field for monitoring a civil area or nuclear site for a longer time. These applications includes: surveillance and target tracking , emergency navigation, fire detection in a building, structural health monitoring and natural disaster prevention such as in the case of tsunamis, eruptions or flooding.

\item \textbf{Transportation systems Applications}
The fast development in the domain of  Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS)  ranging from  flight transport and traffic management to in-vehicle services like driver alert or traffic monitoring. As a result, the transportation data collection and communication represent a major role in the ITS~\cite{ref37}.
The WSNs can be integrated with the transportation systems such as  traffic monitoring, real-time safety systems, and commercial services~\cite{ref22}. In traffic-monitoring systems, The wireless sensors  are embedded within or across the pavement and some sensors are installed above or on the side of roads so as to collect the informations related to the traffic~\cite{ref36}.  These WSN traffic systems are used to detect the vehicles, vehicle count, and classification. In safety applications, the wireless sensors are employed to deal with many cases such as: driving safety~\cite{ref41}, vehicle safety~\cite{ref38},  where many wireless sensors are scattered on roads or vehicles, collaborating through Vehicle-to-Vehicle, Vehicle-to-Roadside, and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure communications. Extensive research in these domains, which are concentrated on preventing the collisions among vehicles by Vehicle-to-Vehicle communications~\cite{ref40}. In addition, commercial applications are can be given by service providers. They include route guidance to avoid rush-hour jams, smart high-speed tolling, assistance in finding a parking space and automobile journey statistics collection~\cite{ref22}.

 
\item \textbf{Industry Applications: Manufacturing and smart grids}
The most significant goal for many companies is the automation of controlling and monitoring systems in many application such as: manufacturing, water treatment, electrical power distribution, and oil and gas refining. The WSNs is incorporated in Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems and Smart Grids~\cite{ref22}. SCADA systems are a computer softwares by which the industrial processes in factories are controlled and supervised.  The wireless sensors are used with actuators to control the factory,  detection of liquid/gas leakages, and inventory management. These applications are needed for precise monitoring of temperature, shock, and noise factors in remote locations such as tanks, turbine engines or pipelines. In Smart Grids, the goal is to supervise the energy supply and  consumption operation. The main WSN applications in smart grid includes: sensing the relevant parameters affecting power output (pressure, humidity, wind orientation, radiation, etc.); control of turbines, motors and underground cables; home energy management; and remote detection of faulty components.

\end{enumerate}
%\section{Protocol Design Requirements}
%\label{ch1:sec:06}

\section{The Main Challenges in Wireless Sensor Networks}
\label{ch1:sec:05}
There are many challenges need to be faced in WSNs, which are received increasing attention by a large number of researchers during the last few years. These challenges were the reason in proposing different solutions so as to face these challenges (see section~\ref{ch1:sec:06}).
\begin{enumerate} [(I)]
\item \textbf{Extended Network Lifetime:} one fundamental issue in WSNs is how to prolong the network lifetime as long as possible. Since sensor battery has a limited power; and since it is difficult to recharge or replace it especially in remote or hostile environment; It is necessary to reduce the energy consumption by using energy-efficient methods so as to extend the network lifetime.

\item \textbf{Coverage:} One of the fundamental challenges in WSNs is the coverage preservation and the extension of the network lifetime continuously and effectively when monitoring a certain area (or region) of interest. The major objective is to choose the minimum number of sensor nodes in order to monitor the target sensing field without affecting on the application requirements in executing its tasks as long time as possible. 

\item \textbf{Routing:} is one of the important problems in WSNs that needs to be solved efficiently. The limited resources of WSNs and the impacts of wireless communication are let to a big challenge in ensuring energy-efficient routing. However, it is not enough to use the shortest path to route the packets among the sensor nodes toward the sink. It is necessary to design an energy-efficient routing protocol that considers the remaining energy of sensor node during taking the decision to route the packet to the next hop toward the destination. This can participates in energy conservation and balancing among the sensor node in WSNs. 

\item \textbf{Autonomous and Distributed Management:}
Since the nature of many WSN applications that need to be deployed in a remote or hostile environment, it is important that the wireless sensor nodes work in autonomous and distributed way to communicate and cooperate with other sensor nodes without human intervention because the maintenance or the repair maybe difficult. The distributed management consumes less energy because it based on only local information from the neighboring sensor nodes; on the other hand, it does not give the optimal solution, so the main challenge is how to apply the a distributed management in WSNs and in the same time ensuring an optimal or near optimal solution.
   
\item \textbf{Scalability:} Many physical phenomenons may be require to be deployed densely with a large number of sensor nodes for different reasons such as: the large sensed field, the requirement of reliability, or Prolonging the network lifetime. It is important that the proposed protocols in WSNs be scalable for these large number of sensor nodes so as to achieve their tasks efficiently. 

\item \textbf{Reliability:} There are many applications that require a high quality of coverage. These applications need to deploy a large number of a cheap sensor nodes so as to satisfy the requirement of application. These large number of the sensor nodes may be prone to the failure and this will affect on the quality of service provided by the application. However, it is important to build mechanisms inside the protocols so as to avoid the failure of some sensor nodes during the network operation and to increase the robustness of the proposed protocol in WSNs.

\item \textbf{Topology Control:} The maintenance and repair of the network topology is a challenging task because there are a large number of inaccessible sensor nodes that are prone to failure. So, some schemes need to used to deal with the dynamic changing of topology and the failure of some sensor nodes due to energy depletion or malfunction.

\item \textbf{Heterogeneity:} One essential challenge is to provide a WSN protocol that deals with different sensor node capabilities such as communication, processing, sensing, and energy. The future of WSNs will be heterogeneous with a large number of sensor nodes. These WSNs may be reflect different tasks and can be integrated into one big network. So, it is necessary to take the heterogeneity into consideration during constructing the protocols in WSNs. 

\item \textbf{Wireless Networking:} The networking and wireless communication represent another important challenge in WSNs. The communication range of the signals can be attenuated or faded during the signal propagation across the communication media or during passing through obstacles. The increasing distance between the sensor nodes and the sink requires increased transmission power; However, the long distance can be divided into several small distances using multi-hop communication. The multi-hop communication poses another challenge is how to find the more energy efficient route to transmitting the information from the source to the destination, where the sensor nodes should be cooperated to find this route; and to serve as relays.

\item \textbf{Data Management:} It represents one of the challenges that contributes in depleting the energy of the sensor nodes in WSNs. The main task of the WSN after deploying the sensor nodes in target environment that need to be monitored is to collect the sensed data from this physical environment and then transmit it to the base station. Since there are many sensor nodes in WSN; and since every sensor node want to transmit its sensed data to the base station; It will be a large amount of data that need to be managed, processed and routed, to the sink that represents a real challenge in WSNs.

\item \textbf{Security:} The sensitivity of the information collected by WSNs represents the final challenge that should be faced in WSNs. This information is susceptible to malicious intrusions and hacker attacks; however, it is necessary to provide energy efficient schemes by WSNs to protect this information during the operation of WSNs.

\end{enumerate}



\section{Energy-Efficient Mechanisms in Wireless Sensor Networks}
\label{ch1:sec:06}
The energy limited nature of wireless sensor nodes need to use energy efficient mechanisms to prolong network lifetime. The energy efficient mechanisms can be classified into five categories~\cite{ref22}. Figure~\ref{emwsn} summarizes the energy-efficient mechanisms in WSNs.
\begin{figure}[h!]
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.5]{Figures/ch1/WSN-M.pdf} 
\caption{Energy-Efficient Mechanisms in Wireless Sensor Networks}
\label{emwsn}
\end{figure}

\subsection{Energy-Efficient Routing}
The energy-efficient routing is a significant factor to the design of WSN protocols in order to satisfy the main constraints in the hardware, power, and other resources of wireless sensor nodes~\cite{ref42}. There are many challenging factors need to be taken into consideration during designing a routing protocol for WSN, like: Limited energy capacity, Node deployment, Sensor location, Dynamic network, Hardware resource constraints, Data aggregation and gathering, Latency, Scalability, and Fault tolerance.

\begin{enumerate} [(I)]

\item \textbf{Cluster architectures:} in this strategy, the wireless sensor nodes are grouped into several groups that called clusters, each group of wireless sensor nodes are managed by a single sensor node, which is called cluster head. The cluster head takes the responsibility of manging the activities of the wireless sensor nodes with the cluster and it communicates and coordinates with other cluster heads or the base station in the WSN. This mechanism conserves the energy in WSNs by means of~\cite{ref43,ref22}:
\begin{enumerate}[(a)]
\item Grouping the wireless sensor nodes into clusters led to decrease the communication range within the cluster and therefore minimize the energy needed to communication among the nodes inside the cluster.
\item Minimizing the energy hungry operations such as collaboration and aggregation to the cluster head.
\item Limiting the number of communications (transmitting and receiving) due to the fusion operation carried out by the cluster head.
\item The continuous changing of cluster head according to residual energy led to balancing energy consumption among wireless sensor nodes inside the cluster.
\item Some nodes can be turned-off within the same cluster whilst the cluster head manage the responsibilities.
\end{enumerate}
In addition, the clustering supports network scalability in WSNs~\cite{ref43,ref44}.

\item \textbf{Energy as a routing metric:} lifetime maximization can be achieved by using the residual power of wireless sensor node as a routing metric and take it into account during executing the routing protocol in WSNs. So, the routing protocols should concentrate on the remaining power of sensor nodes during taking the decision to select the next hop toward the destination and not depend on the shortest path solution. It prioritizes routes on the basis of an energy metric (sometimes with other routing metrics) so it is called energy-aware routing protocols~\cite{ref45,ref46}.

\item \textbf{Multipath routing:} efficient strategy that can provides reliability, security and load balancing  in order to forward packets in a limited energy and constrained resources(computation, communication, and storage) networks like WSNs~\cite{ref50}. The single path routing is simple and scalable but it is not efficient for energy constrained networks such as WSNs . There are many multipath routing protocol are summarized in~\cite{ref50,ref51}.

\item \textbf{Relay node placement:} in WSN, some wireless sensor nodes in a certain region may be died and this will leads to create a hole in the WSN. This problem can be solved by placing the wireless sensor nodes in sensing field using optimal distribution or by deploying a small number of relay wireless sensor nodes with a powerful capabilities whose major goal is the communication with other wireless sensor nodes or relay nodes~\cite{ref52}. his solution can enhance the power balancing and avoiding the overloaded wireless sensor nodes in a particular region in WSN.

\item \textbf{Sink Mobility:} in WSNs that included a static sink, the wireless sensor nodes, which are near the sink drain their power more rapidly compared with other sensor nodes that leads to WSN disconnection and limited network lifetime~\cite{ref53}. This is happening due to sending all the data in WSN to the sink that maximizes the overload on the wireless sensor nodes close to sink. In order to overcome this problem and prolong the network lifetime; it is necessary to use a mobile sink to move within the area of WSN so as to collect the sensory data from the static sensor nodes over a single hop communication.  The mobile sink avoids the multi-hop communication and conserves the energy at the static sensor nodes close the base station, extending the lifetime of WSN~\cite{ref54,ref55}.

\end{enumerate} 



\subsection{Radio Optimization}
In wireless sensor node, the radio is the most energy-consuming unit for draining the battery power. Extensive researches have been focused on decreasing the power depletion due to wireless communication by means of optimizing the radio parameters such as: coding and modulation schemes; transmission Power and antenna
direction; and cognitive radio and Cooperative communications schemes~\cite{ref22}.


\subsection{Scheduling Schemes}
There are many scheduling schemes have been suggested so as to decrease the energy depletion and improve the lifetime of WSNs~\cite{ref58,ref59}. These schemes have dealt with scheduling the states of wireless sensor nodes and putting the idle sensor nodes into sleep mode (i.e, turn off the radio unit) to save the energy. Figure~\ref{wsns} summarizes the Scheduling Schemes in WSNs. In this figure, the scheduling schemes are classified into two main branches~\cite{ref56,ref57}: (i) wake up scheduling aims to manage the wireless sensor node states (sleep/wake up) in WSN by selecting a set of time intervals for a sensor nodes to be awake from continuous time duration. and (ii) topology control in which a set of a wireless sensor nodes are chose to be awake from a given sensor nodes in WSN. 
\begin{figure}[h!]
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.5]{Figures/ch1/WSN-S.pdf} 
\caption{Scheduling Schemes in Wireless Sensor Networks}
\label{wsns}
\end{figure}


\subsubsection{Wake up Scheduling Schemes:}

This section demonstrates the scheduling schemes from point of view of schedule Composition process and the framework of the wake up schedule. In these scheduling schemes, the wake up interval refers to the period of time at which the radio unit is turned on so as to sends or receives the packets. Whilst the sleep interval refers to a period of time at which the radio unit is turned off so as to retain the energy of wireless sensor node. Some schemes divide the time into equal length durations of time that called slotted schemes; on the other hand, the other schemes works with the time in continuous way that called unslotted schemes. The sleep and wake up intervals are defined for the unslotted schemes whilst for the slotted schemes, these intervals are represented as multiples of slots. The wake up schedule represents a set of a wake up and sleep intervals, which are produced for one period. Those schedule replicates to each period and it can be changed by the wake up scheduling scheme during the different periods of time. The final goal of those wake up schedule is to permit to exchange of data among the wireless sensor nodes in WSN during the wake up interval. As shown in figure~\ref{wsns}, the requirement for synchronization has been categorized the wake up scheduling into three categories:

\begin{enumerate} [(I)]

\item \textbf{Synchronous schemes:} require that the time among wireless sensor nodes are synchronized. Several synchronous approaches have been suggested that based on the time synchronization in their work. The majority of synchronous schemes work in periodic way by preparing the same wake up schedule for every period unless a change by wake up scheduling algorithm. On the other hand, the aperiodic schemes does not apply the periodic schedule. 

\begin{enumerate} [(A)]
\item The periodic wakeup scheduling schemes can be operate in slotted and unslotted way, where the period is divided into equal-length slots in the slotted schemes. The major challenge in periodic wakeup scheduling is to select and activate the best time interval(s) in a period so as to the wireless sensor node performs the communication (sending and receiving). This is from point of view of Wireless sensor node whilst from the standpoint of the WSN, choosing the time intervals through the wireless sensor nodes to satisfy a certain performance factor  in WSN seems to be difficult. This performance can be carried out from the cooperation among the sensor nodes in WSN to produce the wake up schedule. The periodic wakeup scheduling schemes are classified into five groups based on the degree of the cooperation~\cite{ref57}: 
\begin{enumerate} [(i)]
\item Neighbor-coordinated in which the wireless sensor node generate its own wake up schedule taking into consideration the wake up schedules of its neighbor sensor nodes. 
%The protocols that used this approach like : S-MAC protocol, Timeout MAC (T-MAC), Pattern-MAC (PMAC), Dynamic S-MAC (DSMAC), and ESC; 
\item Path-coordinated is suggested to allow the wireless sensor nodes along the path to collaborate to manage their wake up schedules so as to permit to packets passing on the path without delay. The sleep interval represents the main problem for the duty-cycling WSNs that participating in end-to-end delay. 
%Some examples  used this approach~\cite{ref65,ref66,ref67}; 
\item Network-coordinated: the wireless sensor nodes are cooperated in order to produce a global or per sensor node wake up schedule that achieves a specific objectives.  These schemes can be centralized in which one sensor node responsible of constructing the wakeup schedule for a subset or all nodes in WSN; or distributed in which every wireless sensor node in the network contributes in the production of their wakeup schedules.  
%Instances that used this approach in~\cite{ref68,ref69}; 
\item Non-collaborative: in this schemes, the wireless sensor node applies control theory, or other tools, which are based on local information inside the sensor node (such as queue length or duty cycle). i.e., It does not use the information from the other nodes in order to construct its own wake up schedule. 
%Some examples that used these schemes~\cite{ref70,ref71}.
\end{enumerate}

\item Aperiodic wakeup scheduling: the wireless sensor node decides its own schedule to wake up or sleep in each slot randomly. 
%Examples that used this technique are proposed in~\cite{ref72,ref73}.
 
\end{enumerate}

\item \textbf{Asynchronous schemes:} the time among the wireless sensor nodes do not needs synchronization. The wireless sensor node wake up to send packets with out taking into account whether the receiving sensor nodes are wake up and ready to receive. The major advantages received from these schemes in that they do not need time synchronization that lead to remove the energy consumption required by applying the periodic resynchronization of time among the sensor nodes~\cite{ref74}. Another benefit come from using the asynchronous schemes that they do not need high exploitation for wireless sensor resources (processing, memory, and radio) because there is no shared wake up schedules to be exchanged or saved in the memory.  So,  exchanging the packets among the wireless sensor nodes, which are not aware of each other's wake up schedules have been considered a major challenge in asynchronous schemes. These schemes can be categorized into three groups~\cite{ref57}: 
 
\begin{enumerate} [(A)]
\item Transmitter-initiated: a special frame is sent by the transmitting sensor node to inform the receiving sensor node that it has a data frame to send.  If the receiving sensor node is hearing the the special frame during one of its wake up intervals, it waits for sending the data frame. The major advantages of these schemes represented by the low requirement of the memory and processing whilst the major disadvantages are low-duty cycle and the sleep latency is non-deterministic. 
%Examples on these schemes in~\cite{ref75,ref76}.
\item Receiver-initiated: during each wake up time interval of receiving wireless sensor node, it sends a special frame to inform the senders that it is wake up and ready to receive the data frames.  When the sensor node has a packet to send it wakes up and wait receiving special frame from neighboring sensor nodes. The waiting sensor node is sending its data frame at the moment of receiving the special frame from the neighbor sensor node. The main advantages are a  low processing and storage requirement whilst the disadvantage of these schemes are the low performance during low and high duty cycle as well as their sleep latency is stochastic. 
%The works that proposed in~\cite{ref77,ref78} represents some instances for these approaches.
\item Combinatorial or random: during the wake up duration, one or more data packets can be exchanged among the wireless sensor nodes. The data packets are exchanged among the wireless sensor nodes are increased as the wake up time increased. In this schemes, the special frames are removed and the energy consumption is decreased. 
%The proposed works in~\cite{ref81,ref82,ref83} give an instances for these schemes.
\end{enumerate}
 
\item \textbf{Hybrids schemes:} Some schemes need to use both time synchronous and Asynchronous methods. According to WSN circumstances, the wake up scheduling switches between synchronous and asynchronous modes, where the synchronous schemes work efficiently in the heavy load circumstances whilst in the light load circumstances, the asynchronous schemes are more efficient. 
%The protocols in~\cite{ref79,ref80} are an examples on these schemes.

\end{enumerate}



\subsubsection{Topology Control Schemes:}
 The topology control schemes are dealing with the redundancy in the WSNs. The WSN are always deploying with high density and in a random way, where a large number of wireless sensor nodes are usually throwing by the airplane over the area of interest. The purpose of deploying a dense WSN is to cope with the sensor failure during or after the WSN deployment and to maximize the network lifetime by means of exploiting the overlapping among the sensor nodes in the network by putting the redundant sensor nodes into sleep mode in order to benefit from it later. The major goal of topology control protocols is to dynamically adapt network topology based on requirements of application so as to minimize the number of active sensor nodes, achieve the tasks of the network, and prolong the network lifetime~\cite{ref56,ref22}. Many factors can be used to decide which sensor nodes should be turned on or off and when. The topology control schemes have been classified into two categories~\cite{ref56}: 
 
\begin{enumerate} [(I)]
\item \textbf{Location driven protocols} in which determining which wireless sensor node to turn on or off based on its location that should be known, such as Geographical Adaptive Fidelity (GAF) protocol~\cite{ref84}. These schemes are called network coverage that describing how the sensing field is monitored using minimum number of wireless sensor nodes in order to achieve application requirements and prolong the network lifetime~\cite{ref102}.

\item \textbf{Connectivity driven protocols} in which the wireless sensor nodes are activated or deactivated so that the sensing coverage and WSN connectivity are assured, such as Span protocol~\cite{ref85}.
\end{enumerate}


\subsection{Data-Driven Schemes:}
Data driven approaches aim to decrease the amount of data sent to the sink whilst maintaining the accuracy of sensing within acceptable level. So, removing unwanted data during the transmission and restriction the sensing tasks during data acquisition can be participating in reduce the energy consumption in WSNs. 
%Several data-driven schemes have been proposed in~\cite{ref86,ref87,ref88,ref89,ref90}.
Data driven schemes classified into two main approaches~\cite{ref59,ref22}:
 
\begin{enumerate} [(I)]
\item \textbf{Data reduction schemes} that deal with reducing the amount of data need to be transmitted to sink. They can be divided into stochastic approaches, time series forecasting and algorithmic approaches. In stochastic approaches, the physical phenomena are transformed using stochastic characterization. the aggregating by these protocols require high processing so it is feasible to work on a powerful sensor nodes with a big battery. In time series forecasting, the old values of periodic sampling can be used to forecast a future value in the same series. In algorithmic approaches, sensed phenomena are demonstrated using heuristic or state transition model. 
\item \textbf{Energy efficient data acquisition schemes} are concentrated on the energy consumption reduction in the sensing unit. These schemes are divided into adaptive sampling, hierarchical sampling and model based active sampling. In adaptive sampling, the amount of data that acquired from the transducer can be reduced by spatial or temporal correlation between data. These approaches are more efficient to be used in centralized fusion but it consumes a high energy due to requiring a high processing. In hierarchical sampling, are more efficient when there are different types of sensor are installed on the nodes. These approaches are more energy efficient and application specific. The model based approaches are similar to data prediction schemes. These approaches aim to decrease the data samples by using computed models and conserve the energy by means of data acquisition. 
\end{enumerate} 


\subsection{Battery Repletion:}
In the last years, extensive researches have been focused on energy harvesting and wireless charging techniques. These solutions are representing alternate energy sources to recharge wireless sensor batteries without human intervention and instead of depending on the limited power supplied by a typical batteries~\cite{ref91,ref59}. In energy harvesting, several sources of environmental energy have been developed so as to enable the wireless sensors to acquire energy from the surrounding environment like solar, wind energy, vibration based energy harvesting, radio signals for scavenging RF power, Thermoelectric generators, and shoe-mounted piezoelectric generator to power artificial organs~\cite{ref59}. In wireless charging,  the wireless power can be transmitted between the devices without requiring to the connection between the transmitter and the receiver. These techniques are participating in increasing the the availability of WSNs and prolonging the network lifetime. Wireless charging in WSNs can be performed by using two manners: magnetic resonant coupling and electromagnetic radiation~\cite{ref22}.


\section{Network Lifetime in Wireless Sensor Networks}  
\label{ch1:sec:07}
The limited resources in WSNs have been addressed, and one of the main challenges in WSNs is the limited power resource. For this reason, there are extensive researches have been proposed in order to prolong the network lifetime by means of designing and implementing energy-efficient protocols. The reason for these large number of proposed protocols to maximize the network lifetime is the difficulty and sometime impossibility to replace or recharge the batteries of wireless sensor nodes especially in the large WSN and hostile environment. The authors have been defined the network lifetime in different contexts and use it as a metric to evaluate the performance of their protocols. Based on the previous proposed works in prolonging the network lifetime;Various definitions exist for the lifetime of a sensor network~\cite{ref92,ref93} such as:~\textbf{(i)} is the time spent by WSN until the death of the first wireless sensor node ( or cluster head ) in the network due to its energy depletion.~\textbf{(ii)} is the time spent by WSN and has at least a specific set $\beta$ of alive sensor nodes in WSN.~\textbf{(iii)} is the time spent by WSN until the death of all wireless sensor nodes in WSN because they have been depleted of their energy.~\textbf{(iv)} for  k-coverage is the time spent by WSN in covering the area of interest by at least $k$ sensor nodes.~\textbf{(v)} for 100 $\%$ coverage is the time spent by WSN in covering each target or the whole area by at least one sensor node.~\textbf{(vi)} for $\alpha$-coverage: the total time by which at least $\alpha$ part of the sensing field is covered by at least one node; or is the time spent by WSN until the coverage ratio becomes less than a predetermined threshold $\alpha$.
~\textbf{(vii)} the working time spent by the system before either the coverage ratio or delivery ratio become less than a predetermined threshold.~\textbf{(viii)} the number of the successful data gathering trips.~\textbf{(ix)} the number of sent packets.~\textbf{(x)} the percentage of wireless sensor nodes that have a route to the sink.~\textbf{(xi)} the prediction of the total period of time during which the probability of ensuring the connectivity and k-coverage concurrently is at least $\alpha$.~\textbf{(xii)} the time spent by WSN until loosing the connectivity or the coverage.~\textbf{(xiii)} the time spent by WSN until acceptable event detection ratio is not acceptable in the network.~\textbf{(xiv)} the time spent by WSN and the application requirement has been met.

According to the above definitions for network lifetime, There is no universal definition reflects the requirements of each application and the effects of the environment. In real WSN, the network lifetime reflects a set of a particular circumstances of the environment. Accordingly, the current definitions are applicable for the WSNs that meet a particular conditions. However, there are many more parameters, which are affecting on the network lifetime of WSN such as~\cite{ref92}:  heterogeneity, node mobility, topology changes, application characteristics, quality of service, and completeness.


\section{Coverage in Wireless Sensor Networks } 
\label{ch1:sec:8}
Energy efficiency is  a crucial issue in wireless sensor networks since sensory
consumption, in  order to  maximize the network lifetime, represents  the major
difficulty when designing WSNs. As a consequence, one of the scientific research
challenges in  WSNs, which has  been addressed by  a large amount  of literature
during the  last few  years, is  the design of  energy efficient  approaches for
coverage and connectivity~\cite{ref94,ref101}.   Coverage reflects how well a
sensor  field is  monitored. On  the one  hand we  want to  monitor the  area of
interest in the most efficient way~\cite{ref95}.  On the other hand we want to
use  as little energy  as possible.   Sensor nodes  are battery-powered  with no
means  of recharging  or replacing,  usually  due to  environmental (hostile  or
unpractical environments)  or cost reasons.   Therefore, it is desired  that the
WSNs are deployed  with high densities so as to  exploit the overlapping sensing
regions of some sensor  nodes to save energy by turning off  some of them during
the sensing phase to prolong the network lifetime.
The most discussed coverage problems in literature can be classified into three types~\cite{ref96}:
\begin{enumerate}[(i)] 
\item \textbf{Area coverage}~\cite{ref97,ref153} where every point inside an area is to be monitored. The work in this dissertation deals with this type of coverage.
\item \textbf{Target coverage}~\cite{ref98,ref153} where the main objective is to cover only a finite number of discrete points called targets.
\item \textbf{Barrier coverage}~\cite{ref99,ref100} to prevent intruders from entering into the region of interest. 
\end{enumerate}

The sensing quality and capability can be assessed by a sensing coverage models due to discovering the mathematical relationship between the point and the sensor node in the sensing field. In the real world, there are sometimes an obstacles in the environment that affect on the sensing range~\cite{ref104}, so there are several sensing coverage models have been suggested according to application requirements and physical working environment such as~\cite{ref103}: boolean sector coverage, boolean disk coverage, attenuated disk coverage, truncated attenuated disk, detection coverage, and estimation coverage Models. However, There are two common sensing coverage models have been used for simulating the performance of wireless sensors~\cite{ref104,ref105,ref106}:

\begin{enumerate}[(A)] 
\item \textbf{The Binary Disc Sensing Model}
It is the simplest sensing coverage model in which every point in the sensing field can be sensed if it is within the sensing range of the wireless sensor node, otherwise, it is not able to detect any point that is outside the sensing range of the sensor node. The sensing range in this model can be viewed as a circular disk with a radius equal to $R_s$. Assume that a sensor node $s_i$ is deployed in the position $(x_i,y_i)$. For any point P at the position $(x,y)$, the equation \ref{eq1-ch1} shows the binary sensor model that expresses the coverage $C_{xy}$ of the point P by sensor node $s_i$.
\begin{equation}
C_{xy}\left(s_i \right)  = \left \{ 
\begin{array}{l l}
  1& \mbox{if $d(s_i,P)$  $<$ $R_s$,} \\
  0 &  \mbox{otherwise.}\\
\end{array} \right.
\label{eq1-ch1} 
\end{equation}

where $d(s_i,P) = \sqrt{(x_i - x)^2 + (y_i - y)^2}$, denotes the Euclidean distance between sensor node $s_i$ and P. 


\item \textbf{The Probabilistic Sensing Model}
In reality, the event detection by sensor node is imprecise; therefore, the coverage $C_{xy}$ requires to be represented in probabilistic manner. The probabilistic sensing model is more practical which can used as an extension for the binary disc sensing model. The equation \ref{eq2-ch1} shows the probabilistic sensing model that expresses the coverage $C_{xy}$ of the point P by sensor node $s_i$.

\begin{equation}
C_{xy}\left(s_i \right)  = \left \{ 
\begin{array}{l l l}
  1 & \mbox{if $d(s_i,P)$  $ \leqslant $ $R_s - R_u$} \\
  \emph{e^{-\lambda\alpha^{\beta}}} & \mbox{if $R_s - R_u$ $ < $ $d(s_i,P)$  $ < $ $R_s + R_u$} \\
  0 &  \mbox{if $R_s + R_u$ $ \leq $ $d(s_i,P)$}\\
\end{array} \right.
\label{eq2-ch1} 
\end{equation}

where $R_u$ is a measure of the uncertainty in sensor detection, $\alpha = d(s_i,P) - (R_s - R_u)$, and $\lambda$ and $\beta$ are parameters that measure detection probability when a point P is at distance greater than $R_u$ but within a distance from the sensor node $s_i$. 

\end{enumerate}

The coverage protocols that proposed in this dissertation have been used the binary disc sensing model.


\section{Design Issues for Coverage Problems}
\label{ch1:sec:11}
There are several design issues that should be considered in order to produce a solutions for the coverage problems in WSNs. These design issues can be classified into~\cite{ref103}:

\begin{enumerate}[(i)]
\item $\textbf{Coverage Type}$ refers to determining what is it exactly that you are trying to cover. Typically, it may be required to monitor a whole area, observe a set of targets, or look for a breach among a barrier. 
  
\item $\textbf{Deployment Method}$ refers to the way by which the wireless sensor nodes are deployed over the target sensing field in order to build the wireless sensor network. Generally, the sensor nodes can be placed either deterministically or randomly in the target sensing field so as to construct the wireless sensor network~\cite{ref107}. The method of placing the sensor nodes can be selected based on the type of sensors, application, and the environment, which the wireless sensor nodes will work in it. In the deterministic placing, the deployment can be achieved in case of small number of sensor nodes and in friendly environment, whilst for a large number of sensor nodes or the area of interest is Inaccessible or hostile, a random placing is the choice. The sensor network can be either dense or sparse. the dense deployment is preferred when it is important to detect the event or when it is required that the area covered by more than one sensor node. On the other hand, the sparse deployment is used when the dense deployment is expensive or when the maximum coverage is performed by a less number of sensor nodes.
 
\item $\textbf{Coverage Degree}$ refers to how many sensor nodes required it to cover a target or an area. This can be described as K-coverage in which the point in the sensing field is covered by at least K sensor nodes. There are some applications that need a high reliability to achieve their tasks, so the sensing field have been deployed densely so as to perform a K-coverage for this field. The simple coverage problem consists of a coverage degree equal to one (i.e., K=1), where every point in the sensing field is covered by only one sensor.

\item $\textbf{Coverage Ratio}$ is the percentage of the area of sensing field that fulfill the coverage degree of the application. If all the points in the sensing field are covered, the coverage ratio is $100\%$ and it can be called a complete coverage, otherwise it can be called as partial coverage.

\item $\textbf{Network Connectivity}$ is to ensure the existence a path from any sensor node in WSN to the sink. The connected WSN refers to guarantee sending the sensed data from one sensor node to another sensor node toward directly to the sink. It is necessary to consider the communication range of wireless sensor node is at least twice that of the sensing range ($R_c \geqslant 2R_s$) so as to imply connectivity among the sensor nodes during covering the sensing field~\cite{ref108}.

\item $\textbf{Activity based Scheduling}$ is to schedule the activation and deactivation of sensor nodes. The basic objective is to decide which sensors are in what states (active or sleeping mode) and for how long, so that the application coverage requirement can be
guaranteed and the network lifetime can be prolonged. Various approaches, including centralized, distributed, and localized algorithms, have been proposed for activity scheduling. In
distributed algorithms, each node in the network autonomously makes decisions on whether to turn on or turn off itself only using local neighbor information. In centralized algorithms, a
central controller (a node or base station) informs every sensors of the time intervals to be activated.

\end{enumerate}

\section{Energy Consumption Models} 
\label{ch1:sec:9}
The WSNs have been received a lot of interest because their low energy consumption sensor nodes.  Since the sensor node has a limited power battery; so, one of the most critical issues in WSNs is how to reduce the energy consumption of sensor nodes so as to prolong the network lifetime as long as possible. In order to model the energy consumption, four states for a sensor node have been used~\cite{ref140}:  transmission, reception, listening, and sleeping; and we can add another two states that should be taken into account: computation and sensed data acquisition. The main tasks of each of these states include:

\begin{enumerate}[(i)]

\item Computation: processing needed for clustering and executing any algorithm inside the sensor node.  The processing that required to  physical communication and networking protocols is included in reception and transmission.

\item  Transmission:  processing for address determination, packetization, encoding, framing, and maybe queuing; supply for the baseband and RF circuitry.

\item  Reception:  Low-noise amplifier, downconverter oscillator, filtering, detection, decoding, error detection, and address check; reception even if a node is not the intended receiver

\item  Listening: Similar to reception except that the signal processing chain stops at the detection.

\item Data Acquisition: sensing, processing sensed data, A/D conversion, preprocessing, and maybe storing.

\item Sleeping: provide a low power to sensor node to stay alive.

\end{enumerate}

In this section, two energy consumption models are explained. The first model called radio energy dissipation model and the second model represent our energy consumption model, which has been used by the proposed protocols in this dissertation.


\subsection{Radio Energy Dissipation Model}
Since the communication unit is the most energy-consuming part inside the sensor node, and accordingly there are many authors used the radio energy dissipation model that proposed in~\cite{ref109,ref110} as energy consumption model during the simulation and evaluation of their works in WSNs. Figure~\ref{RDM} shows the radio energy dissipation model.
\begin{figure}[h!]
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.4]{Figures/ch1/RDM.eps} 
\caption{Radio energy dissipation model}
\label{RDM}
\end{figure}

In this model, the radio consumes an energy to execute the transmitter and the power amplifier, and receiver circuitry consumes an energy to run the radio electronics, as described in figure~\ref{RDM}.  The channel model can be either free space ( power loss)
or multipath fading ( power loss), based on the distance between the transmitter and receiver. This power loss can be controlled by setting the power amplifier so that if the distance is less than a threshold , the free space ($\varepsilon_{fs}$) model is used; otherwise, the multipath ($C$) model is used. Therefore, to transmit an k-bit packet with a distance d, the radio expends:

\begin{equation}
E_{tx}\left(k,d \right)  = \left \{ 
\begin{array}{l l}
  \emph{ kE_{elec} + k \varepsilon_{fs}d^2}  & \mbox{if $d < d_0$} \\
  \emph{ kE_{elec} + k \varepsilon_{mp}d^4}  &  \mbox{if $d \geqslant d_0$}\\
\end{array} \right.
\label{eq3-ch1} 
\end{equation}

As well as to receive an k-bit packet, the radio expends

\begin{equation}
      E_{rx}\left(k,d \right)  =   \emph{ kE_{elec} }   
\label{eq4-ch1} 
\end{equation}

The typical parameters are set as: $E_{elec}$ = 50 nJ/bit, $\varepsilon_{fs}$ = 10 pJ/bit/$m^2$, $\varepsilon_{fs}$ = 0.0013 pJ/bit/$m^4$. In
addition, the energy for data aggregation is set as $E_{DA}$ = 5 nJ/bit.

The radio energy dissipation model have been considered only the energy consumed by the communication part inside the sensor node; however, in order to achieve a more accurate model, it is necessary to take into account the energy consumed by the other parts inside the sensor node such as: computation unit and sensing unit. 


\subsection{Our Energy Consumption Model}
In this dissertation, the coverage protocols have been used an energy consumption model proposed by~\cite{ref111} and based on \cite{ref112} with slight  modifications.  The energy consumption for  sending/receiving the packets is added, whereas the  part related to the sensing range is removed because we consider a fixed sensing range.
For our energy consumption model, we refer to the sensor node Medusa~II which uses an Atmels  AVR ATmega103L microcontroller~\cite{ref112}. The typical architecture  of a  sensor  is composed  of  four  subsystems: the  MCU subsystem which is capable of computation, communication subsystem (radio) which is responsible  for transmitting/receiving messages, the  sensing subsystem that collects  data, and  the  power supply  which  powers the  complete sensor  node
\cite{ref112}. Each  of the first three subsystems  can be turned on or  off depending on  the current status  of the sensor.   Energy consumption
(expressed in  milliWatt per second) for  the different status of  the sensor is summarized in Table~\ref{table1}.

\begin{table}[ht]
\caption{The Energy Consumption Model}
% title of Table
\centering
% used for centering table
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|c|c|}
% centered columns (4 columns)
      \hline
%inserts double horizontal lines
Sensor status & MCU & Radio & Sensing & Power (mW) \\ [0.5ex]
\hline
% inserts single horizontal line
LISTENING & on & on & on & 20.05 \\
% inserting body of the table
\hline
ACTIVE & on & off & on & 9.72 \\
\hline
SLEEP & off & off & off & 0.02 \\
\hline
COMPUTATION & on & on & on & 26.83 \\
%\hline
%\multicolumn{4}{|c|}{Energy needed to send/receive a 1-bit} & 0.2575\\
 \hline
\end{tabular}

\label{table1}
% is used to refer this table in the text
\end{table}

For the sake of simplicity we ignore  the energy needed to turn on the radio, to start up the sensor node, to move from one status to another, etc.
Thus, when a sensor becomes active (i.e., it has already chosen its status), it can turn  its radio  off to  save battery. The value of energy spent to send a 1-bit-content message is  obtained by using  the equation in  ~\cite{ref112} to calculate  the energy cost  for transmitting  messages and  we propose  the same
value for receiving the packets. The energy  needed to send or receive a 1-bit packet is equal to $0.2575~mW$.


\section{Conclusion}
\label{ch1:sec:10}

In this chapter, an overview about the wireless sensor networks have been presented that represent our focus in this dissertation.  The structure of the the typical wireless sensor network and the main components of the sensor nodes have been demonstrated. Several types of wireless sensor networks are described. There are several fields of application covering a wide spectrum for a WSN have been presented, including health, home, environmental, military, and industrial applications.  As demonstrated, since sensor nodes have limited battery life; since it is impossible to replace batteries, especially in remote and hostile environments; the limited power of a battery represents the critical challenge in WSNs. The main challenges in WSNs have been explained; on the other hand, the energy efficient solutions have been proposed in order to handle these challenges Through energy conservation to prolong the network lifetime. There are many energy efficient mechanisms have been illustrated that  aiming to reduce the energy consumption by the different units of the wireless sensor nodes in WSNs. The definition of the network lifetime has been presented and in different contexts.  The problem of the coverage is explained, where constructing energy efficient coverage protocols one of the main scientific research challenges in WSNs. This chapter highlights the main design issues for the coverage problems that need to be considered during designing coverage protocol for WSNs. In additional, some energy consumption models have been demonstrated.