SIMULATION OF COVERAGE CONFIGURATION PROTOCOL FOR ENERGY EFFICIENT SENSOR NETWORK

Abstract

This thesis gives an insight into the working of CCP (Coverage Configuration Protocol) for energy efficient sensor networks, which provides sensing coverage with the adequate network connectivity. In my minor thesis, I simulated the energy efficient S-MAC protocol for Sensor networks, which provides only network connectivity, but not the sensing coverage. In sensor networks, there are two critical requirements; • Sufficient sensing coverage, • Sufficient network connectivity. Sensing is one of the responsibilities of a sensor network. To operate successfully, a sensor network must provide satisfactorily sensing coverage and network connectivity. By satisfactorily network connectivity, nodes can communicate for data fusion and reporting to base station. Sensing coverage characterizes the monitoring quality provided by a sensor network in a designated region. The coverage requirement for a sensor network depends on the different applications and also on the number of faults that must...