Analytical modeling and mitigation techniques for the energy hole problem in sensor networks

By Jian Pan Li, Prasant Mohapatra. Pervasive and Mobile Computing, 2007

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A Survey on Clustering Routing Protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks (2012, background): “Regardless of MAC protocols, the sensor nodes closer to the BS have to transmit more packets than those far away from the BS [51].”
Maximizing the Lifetime of Wireless Sensor Networks with Mobile Sink in Delay-Tolerant Applications (2010, background): “This phenomenon is sometimes called the “crowded center effect” [10] or the “energy hole problem” [11], [12], [13].”
Data Collection in Wireless Sensor Networks with Mobile Elements: A Survey (2011, background): “Furthermore, in nearly all cases—with the relevant exceptions of Ma and Yang [2007] and Sugihara and Gupta [2009]—obstructions and physical obstacles are not considered, so that the applicability of the solutions to real scenarios is rather limited.”
Avoiding Energy Holes in Wireless Sensor Networks with Nonuniform Node Distribution (2008, methodology): “Li and Mohapatra [8], [ 9 ] present a mathematical model to analyze the energy hole problem in a circular WSN with uniform node distribution and consisting of concentric coronas.”
Energy conservation in wireless sensor networks: A survey (2009, background): “Generally, nodes closer to the sink also have to relay more packets so that they are subject to premature energy depletion, even when techniques for energy conservation are applied [83].”