\chapter{Multiround Distributed Lifetime Coverage Optimization Protocol in Wireless Sensor Networks}
\label{ch5}
-\iffalse
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-\section{Summary}
-\label{ch5:sec:01}
-Coverage and lifetime are two paramount problems in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). In this paper, a method called Multiround Distributed Lifetime Coverage
-Optimization protocol (MuDiLCO) is proposed to maintain the coverage and to improve the lifetime in wireless sensor networks. The area of interest is first
-divided into subregions and then the MuDiLCO protocol is distributed on the sensor nodes in each subregion. The proposed MuDiLCO protocol works in periods
-during which sets of sensor nodes are scheduled to remain active for a number of rounds during the sensing phase, to ensure coverage so as to maximize the
-lifetime of WSN. The decision process is carried out by a leader node, which solves an integer program to produce the best representative sets to be used
-during the rounds of the sensing phase. Compared with some existing protocols, simulation results based on multiple criteria (energy consumption, coverage
-ratio, and so on) show that the proposed protocol can prolong efficiently the network lifetime and improve the coverage performance.
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\section{Introduction}
\label{ch5:sec:01}
\label{ch5:sec:04:01}
We conducted a series of simulations to evaluate the efficiency and the
relevance of our approach, using the discrete event simulator OMNeT++
-\cite{ref158}. The simulation parameters are summarized in Table~\ref{table3}. Each experiment for a network is run over 25~different random topologies and the results presented hereafter are the average of these
-25 runs.
+\cite{ref158}. The simulation parameters are summarized in Table~\ref{table3}. Each experiment for a network is run over 25~different random topologies and the results presented hereafter are the average of these 25 runs.
%Based on the results of our proposed work in~\cite{idrees2014coverage}, we found as the region of interest are divided into larger subregions as the network lifetime increased. In this simulation, the network are divided into 16 subregions.
We performed simulations for five different densities varying from 50 to
250~nodes deployed over a $50 \times 25~m^2 $ sensing field. More
