\section{The Main Challenges in Wireless Sensor Networks}
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-\indent 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 as will be explained in next section~\ref{ch1:sec:06}.
+\indent 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 represent the main reason to propose a different solutions so as to face them as will be explained in next 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{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 in order 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:} 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{Routing:} Represents 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 led 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.
+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 is 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 require to be deployed densely with a large number of sensor nodes for different reasons such as: the large sensed area, reliability requirement, or network lifetime prolongation. It is necessary that the proposed protocols in WSNs be scalable for these large number of sensor
nodes in order to achieve their tasks efficiently.
\item \textbf{Reliability:} Many applications 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{Topology Control:} The maintenance and repair of the network topology is a challenging task because the large number of inaccessible sensor nodes that are prone to failure. Therefore, 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{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. Therefore, 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{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 transmit 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{Data Management:} 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.
