Paper Info
Title
High-Energy-First (HEF) Heuristic for Energy-Efficient Target Coverage Problem
Abstract
Target coverage problem in wireless sensor networks is concerned with maximizing the lifetime of the network while continuously monitoring a set of targets. A sensor covers targets which are within the sensing range. For a set of sensors and a set of targets, the sensor-target coverage relationship is assumed to be known. A sensor cover is a set of sensors that covers all the targets. The target coverage problem is to determine a set of sensor covers with maximum aggregated lifetime while constraining the life of each sensor by its initial battery life. The problem is proved to be NP-complete and heuristic algorithms to solve this problem are proposed. In the present study, we give a unified interpretation of earlier algorithms and propose a new and efficient algorithm. We show that all known algorithms are based on a common reasoning though they seem to be derived from different algorithmic paradigms. We also show that though some algorithms guarantee bound on the quality of the solution, this bound is not meaningful and not practical too. Our interpretation provides a better insight to the solution techniques. We propose a new greedy heuristic which prioritizes sensors on residual battery life. We show empirically that the proposed algorithm outperforms all other heuristics in terms of quality of solution. Our experimental study over a large set of randomly generated problem instances also reveals that a very na\"ive greedy approach yields solutions which is reasonably (appx. 10%) close to the actual optimal solutions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.5121/ijasuc.2011.2105
International Journal of Ad Hoc, Sensor & Ubiquitous Computing
Keywords
DocType
Volume
greedy heuristic,heuristic algorithm,energy efficient,wireless sensor network
Journal
2
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
International Journal of Ad hoc, Sensor & Ubiquitous Computing (IJASUC) Vol.2, No.1, March 2011
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.39
10
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Manju Chaudhary1301.46
Arun K. Pujari242048.20