Optimized mobile sink based grid coverage-aware sensor deployment and link quality based routing in wireless sensor networks

Mobile sink (MS) has been used in wireless sensor networks (WSN) to increase the network lifetime by changing the location over time. The major quality of service given by WSN is coverage energy consumption (EC) and network lifetime. There are many methods implemented for enhance the coverage hole restoration and reduce the EC. We propose a novel MSCOLER (MS based Coverage Optimization and Link-stability Estimation Routing) protocol for Optimal Coverage restoration and Link stability Estimation. An optimization algorithm is used to optimize the coverage hole and move the redundant node besides the hole. During the routing process, link quality based routing is used to discover the relay nodes with the estimation of link stability to enhance the entire network lifetime and practically make the perfect transmission distance for energy saving. Experimental results demonstrate that proposed protocol can solve the coverage restoration problem, decrease the EC and reduce the network lifetime. The performance is evaluated regarding Average of residual energy (ARE), Receiving packets ratio (RPR), Moving energy consumption (MEC), Network lifetime (NL), Percentage of coverage (%C) and Average Energy Consumption (AEC).