A Hybrid Approach to Improve Full Coverage in Wireless Sensor Networks: Full Coverage Improving Hybrid Approach

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a hybrid approach for wireless sensor networks which can reduce the total energy consumption of network operation therefore improving network lifetime along with complete coverage of remote monitoring field. The proposed method named as Hybrid Weight based Coverage Enhancing Protocol (H-WCEP) helps to select appropriate cluster heads and their respective cluster members by using weighted sum method and subsequent routing path by genetic algorithm. The network lifetime and coverage lifetime are computed by implementing this approach to achieve continuously monitoring of remote monitoring areas. The results of H-WCEP outperform as compared to other existing protocols. The network lifetime and full coverage lifetime of H-WCEP increase by 48 percentage and 42 percentage approximately respectively.