Voronoi-Based Sleeping Configuration in Wireless Sensor Networks with Location Error

In wireless sensor networks, to obtain a long network lifetime is a fundamental issue while without sacrificing crucial aspects of quality of service (area coverage, sensing reliability, and network connectivity). In this paper, we present a Voronoi-based sleeping configuration to deal with different sensing radii and location error. With our proposed sleeping candidate condition, redundant sensors are optionally identified and scheduled to sleep in order to extend the system lifetime while maintaining adequate sensor redundancy to tolerate sensor failures, energy depletions, and location error. Simulation results show that there is a tradeoff among energy conservation, area coverage, and fault tolerance, which varies between different sleeping candidate conditions.