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Effect of fading on the k ‐coverage of wireless sensor networks
Author(s) -
Imani Amir Hosein,
Eslami Mohsen,
Haghighat Javad,
Noori Moslem
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
transactions on emerging telecommunications technologies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.366
H-Index - 47
ISSN - 2161-3915
DOI - 10.1002/ett.3994
Subject(s) - fading , rician fading , multipath propagation , fading distribution , path loss , weibull fading , computer science , wireless sensor network , nakagami distribution , channel (broadcasting) , rayleigh fading , channel state information , wireless , electronic engineering , topology (electrical circuits) , computer network , telecommunications , engineering , electrical engineering
Abstract In a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN), coverage performance of the network is affected by multiple factors such as source power, sensitivity of sensors, and the quality of the channel between the source and the sensors. In most existing works on WSNs, only path‐loss of the wireless channel is considered, that with further assumption of absence of obstacles in the sensing region of a sensor, results in circular‐type of coverage for each node. However, in some WSN applications, the channel is not line‐of‐sight and exhibits multipath fading. In this paper, effect of the multipath fading on k ‐coverage of randomly deployed WSNs is analytically investigated via techniques from stochastic geometry. More specifically, the k ‐coverage probability is analytically derived under Rayleigh, Rician, and Nakagami fading assumptions. Numerical results are also presented to compare the derived k ‐coverage probability with the commonly used k ‐coverage models that do not consider the fading effect. These results reveal the level of the k ‐coverage degradation due to multipath fading compared to the case of no fading (fixed range), which in some cases is shown to be very significant.