A wireless sensor network requires judicious utilization of its limited energy resources. As a result, the energy efficient algorithms have become a pre-requisite for healthy and prolonged functioning of these networks. Consequently, the present work minimizes the energy expenditure, maximizes the node utilization, incurs less state switching, and prolongs the network lifetime by proposing a partly centralized and partly distributed sleep wake scheduling for the overlapped dominating sets. The concepts of such a hybrid scheduling and overlapped dominating sets have not been explored to their full potential for continuous sensing. Therefore, the research work presented in this paper shall be a stepping stone to further explore the suggested concept for the purpose of reducing energy consumption in wireless sensor networks. It is envisioned that the proposed approach shall be beneficial in battlefield monitoring, security surveillance, environmental monitoring etc., which necessitate long-term continuous/non-periodic coverage of the target region. The proposed sleep wake scheduling algorithm is hybrid in nature and possesses the advantages of both distributed and centralized approaches. The superiority and significance of the results have been established by a comparative analysis with other existing techniques mentioned in the literature.

无线传感器网络需要明智地利用其有限的能源资源。因此，节能算法已成为这些网络健康和长期运行的先决条件。因此，目前的工作通过为重叠的支配集提出部分集中和部分分布式的睡眠唤醒调度来最小化能量消耗，最大化节点利用率，减少状态切换并延长网络寿命。这种混合调度和重叠支配集的概念尚未充分发挥其连续传感的潜力。因此，本文提出的研究工作将成为进一步探索以降低无线传感器网络能耗为目的的建议概念的垫脚石。等，这需要对目标区域进行长期连续/非周期性覆盖。所提出的睡眠唤醒调度算法本质上是混合的，具有分布式和集中式方法的优点。通过与文献中提到的其他现有技术进行比较分析，确定了结果的优越性和意义。