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-\contentsline {chapter}{List of Tables}{xi}{chapter*.3}
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-\contentsline {subsubsection}{\numberline {1.6.1.2}Multipath Routing:}{12}{subsubsection.1.6.1.2}
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-\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {1.6.3}Scheduling Schemes:}{12}{subsection.1.6.3}
-\contentsline {subsubsection}{\numberline {1.6.3.1}Wake up Scheduling Schemes:}{13}{subsubsection.1.6.3.1}
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-\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {1.6.4}Data-Driven Schemes:}{16}{subsection.1.6.4}
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-\contentsline {subsubsection}{\numberline {1.6.4.2}Energy Efficient Data Acquisition Schemes}{16}{subsubsection.1.6.4.2}
-\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {1.6.5}Battery Repletion:}{17}{subsection.1.6.5}
-\contentsline {subsubsection}{\numberline {1.6.5.1}Energy Harvesting:}{17}{subsubsection.1.6.5.1}
-\contentsline {subsubsection}{\numberline {1.6.5.2}Wireless Charging:}{17}{subsubsection.1.6.5.2}
-\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {1.6.6}Radio Optimization:}{17}{subsection.1.6.6}
-\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {1.6.7}Relay nodes and Sink Mobility:}{17}{subsection.1.6.7}
-\contentsline {subsubsection}{\numberline {1.6.7.1}Relay node placement:}{17}{subsubsection.1.6.7.1}
-\contentsline {subsubsection}{\numberline {1.6.7.2}Sink Mobility:}{18}{subsubsection.1.6.7.2}
-\contentsline {section}{\numberline {1.7}Network Lifetime in Wireless Sensor Networks}{18}{section.1.7}
-\contentsline {section}{\numberline {1.8}Coverage in Wireless Sensor Networks }{19}{section.1.8}
-\contentsline {section}{\numberline {1.9}Design Issues for Coverage Problems:}{20}{section.1.9}
-\contentsline {section}{\numberline {1.10}Energy Consumption Models:}{21}{section.1.10}
-\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {1.10.1}Radio Energy Dissipation Model:}{22}{subsection.1.10.1}
-\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {1.10.2}Our Energy Consumption Model:}{23}{subsection.1.10.2}
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-\contentsline {chapter}{\numberline {2}Related Literatures}{25}{chapter.2}
-\contentsline {section}{\numberline {2.1}Introduction}{25}{section.2.1}
-\contentsline {section}{\numberline {2.2}Coverage Algorithms}{26}{section.2.2}
-\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {2.2.1}Centralized Algorithms}{27}{subsection.2.2.1}
-\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {2.2.2}Distributed Algorithms}{29}{subsection.2.2.2}
-\contentsline {section}{\numberline {2.3}Conclusion}{32}{section.2.3}
-\contentsline {part}{II\hspace {1em}Contributions}{35}{part.2}
-\contentsline {chapter}{\numberline {3}Distributed Lifetime Coverage Optimization Protocol in Wireless Sensor Networks}{37}{chapter.3}
-\contentsline {section}{\numberline {3.1}Summary}{37}{section.3.1}
-\contentsline {section}{\numberline {3.2}DESCRIPTION OF THE DILCO PROTOCOL}{37}{section.3.2}
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-\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {3.2.2}Primary Point Coverage Model}{38}{subsection.3.2.2}
-\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {3.2.3}Main Idea}{39}{subsection.3.2.3}
-\contentsline {subsubsection}{\numberline {3.2.3.1}Information Exchange Phase}{40}{subsubsection.3.2.3.1}
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-\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {3.4.2}Performance Metrics}{44}{subsection.3.4.2}
-\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {3.4.3}Performance Analysis for Different Subregions}{45}{subsection.3.4.3}
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-\contentsline {subsubsection}{\numberline {3.4.3.4}The Energy Consumption}{47}{subsubsection.3.4.3.4}
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-\contentsline {subsubsection}{\numberline {3.4.3.6}The Network Lifetime}{49}{subsubsection.3.4.3.6}
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-\contentsline {subsubsection}{\numberline {3.4.4.1}Coverage Ratio}{51}{subsubsection.3.4.4.1}
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-\contentsline {subsubsection}{\numberline {3.4.4.5}Execution Time}{54}{subsubsection.3.4.4.5}
-\contentsline {subsubsection}{\numberline {3.4.4.6}The Network Lifetime}{54}{subsubsection.3.4.4.6}
-\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {3.4.5}Performance Comparison with other Approaches}{56}{subsection.3.4.5}
-\contentsline {subsubsection}{\numberline {3.4.5.1}Coverage Ratio}{56}{subsubsection.3.4.5.1}
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-\contentsline {subsubsection}{\numberline {3.4.5.3}The percentage of stopped simulation runs}{57}{subsubsection.3.4.5.3}
-\contentsline {subsubsection}{\numberline {3.4.5.4}The Energy Consumption}{58}{subsubsection.3.4.5.4}
-\contentsline {subsubsection}{\numberline {3.4.5.5}The Network Lifetime}{59}{subsubsection.3.4.5.5}
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-\contentsline {chapter}{\numberline {4}Multiround Distributed Lifetime Coverage Optimization Protocol in Wireless Sensor Networks}{63}{chapter.4}
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-\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {4.2.2}Information Exchange Phase}{64}{subsection.4.2.2}
-\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {4.2.3}Leader Election phase}{64}{subsection.4.2.3}
-\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {4.2.4}Decision phase}{65}{subsection.4.2.4}
-\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {4.2.5}Sensing phase}{66}{subsection.4.2.5}
-\contentsline {section}{\numberline {4.3}Experimental Study and Analysis}{66}{section.4.3}
-\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {4.3.1}Simulation Setup}{66}{subsection.4.3.1}
-\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {4.3.2}Metrics}{68}{subsection.4.3.2}
-\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {4.3.3}Results analysis and Comparison }{69}{subsection.4.3.3}
-\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {4.3.4}Coverage ratio}{69}{subsection.4.3.4}
-\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {4.3.5}Active sensors ratio}{69}{subsection.4.3.5}
-\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {4.3.6}Stopped simulation runs}{70}{subsection.4.3.6}
-\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {4.3.7}Energy consumption}{70}{subsection.4.3.7}
-\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {4.3.8}Execution time}{72}{subsection.4.3.8}
-\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {4.3.9}Network lifetime}{72}{subsection.4.3.9}
-\contentsline {section}{\numberline {4.4}Conclusion}{73}{section.4.4}
-\contentsline {part}{III\hspace {1em}Conclusions and Perspectives}{75}{part.3}
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+\contentsline {section}{\numberline {0.4}The main Contributions of this Dissertation}{13}{section.0.4}
+\contentsline {section}{\numberline {0.5}Dissertation Outline}{14}{section.0.5}
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+\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {1.6.3}Scheduling Schemes:}{28}{subsection.1.6.3}
+\contentsline {subsubsection}{\numberline {1.6.3.1}Wake up Scheduling Schemes:}{29}{subsubsection.1.6.3.1}
+\contentsline {subsubsection}{\numberline {1.6.3.2}Topology Control Schemes:}{31}{subsubsection.1.6.3.2}
+\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {1.6.4}Data-Driven Schemes:}{32}{subsection.1.6.4}
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+\contentsline {subsubsection}{\numberline {1.6.4.2}Energy Efficient Data Acquisition Schemes}{32}{subsubsection.1.6.4.2}
+\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {1.6.5}Battery Repletion:}{33}{subsection.1.6.5}
+\contentsline {subsubsection}{\numberline {1.6.5.1}Energy Harvesting:}{33}{subsubsection.1.6.5.1}
+\contentsline {subsubsection}{\numberline {1.6.5.2}Wireless Charging:}{33}{subsubsection.1.6.5.2}
+\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {1.6.6}Radio Optimization:}{33}{subsection.1.6.6}
+\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {1.6.7}Relay nodes and Sink Mobility:}{33}{subsection.1.6.7}
+\contentsline {subsubsection}{\numberline {1.6.7.1}Relay node placement:}{33}{subsubsection.1.6.7.1}
+\contentsline {subsubsection}{\numberline {1.6.7.2}Sink Mobility:}{34}{subsubsection.1.6.7.2}
+\contentsline {section}{\numberline {1.7}Network Lifetime in Wireless Sensor Networks}{34}{section.1.7}
+\contentsline {section}{\numberline {1.8}Coverage in Wireless Sensor Networks }{35}{section.1.8}
+\contentsline {section}{\numberline {1.9}Design Issues for Coverage Problems:}{36}{section.1.9}
+\contentsline {section}{\numberline {1.10}Energy Consumption Modeling:}{37}{section.1.10}
+\contentsline {section}{\numberline {1.11}Conclusion}{39}{section.1.11}
+\contentsline {chapter}{\numberline {2}Related Literatures}{41}{chapter.2}
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+\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {2.2.2}Distributed Algorithms}{45}{subsection.2.2.2}
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+\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {3.2.2}Simulation Tools}{53}{subsection.3.2.2}
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+\contentsline {section}{\numberline {3.4}Conclusion}{61}{section.3.4}
+\contentsline {part}{II\hspace {1em}Contributions}{63}{part.2}
+\contentsline {chapter}{\numberline {4}Distributed Lifetime Coverage Optimization Protocol in Wireless Sensor Networks}{65}{chapter.4}
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+\contentsline {subsubsection}{\numberline {4.2.3.1}Information Exchange Phase}{68}{subsubsection.4.2.3.1}
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+\contentsline {subsubsection}{\numberline {4.2.3.4}Sensing phase}{69}{subsubsection.4.2.3.4}
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+\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {4.4.3}Energy Consumption Model}{72}{subsection.4.4.3}
+\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {4.4.4}Performance Metrics}{73}{subsection.4.4.4}
+\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {4.4.5}Performance Analysis for Different Subregions}{74}{subsection.4.4.5}
+\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {4.4.6}Performance Analysis for Primary Point Models}{79}{subsection.4.4.6}
+\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {4.4.7}Performance Comparison with other Approaches}{83}{subsection.4.4.7}
+\contentsline {section}{\numberline {4.5}Conclusion}{88}{section.4.5}
+\contentsline {chapter}{\numberline {5}Multiround Distributed Lifetime Coverage Optimization Protocol in Wireless Sensor Networks}{91}{chapter.5}
+\contentsline {section}{\numberline {5.1}Summary}{91}{section.5.1}
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+\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {5.3.3}Results Analysis and Comparison }{97}{subsection.5.3.3}
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