An Energy Effilcient Monitoring of Ad-Hoc Sensor Network with Cellular Automata

Sensor network has been identified as the most important technology for the next century. Despite of its potential application, wireless sensor network encounters resource restrictions such as low computational power, reduced bandwidth and specially limited power resource. This work reports a network monitoring protocol to provide a logical topology for an energy efficient maximally covered ad-hoc sensor network (Eemca). It is developed around the regular structure of 1-dimensional cellular automata. The simulation results establish that the monitoring of sensor nodes with the proposed technique shows better utilization of the resources that effectively leads to an energy efficient maximally covered sensor network topology.