Cost and Energy Efficient Distributed Computation: Wireless Sensor Networks on Uniform Grid

Wireless Sensors that are small in size and limited battery capacity are widely used for several different applications. For this reason energy efficient as well as cost of the overall network are the two main factors influencing the Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) performance. In this research paper, in Wireless Sensor Network, energy efficient placement of sensors on the uniform rectangular grid (as sensor field) is proposed. Also, distributed computation of minimum and/or maximum over such sensor field is discussed (for minimizing computations and communications delay).