Wireless sensor networks have a wide range of applications. Sensing coverage and communication coverage are two fundamental quality of service. In this paper, we present our work on energy efficient sensing coverage and communication. We design several schemes for sensing coverage subject to different requirements and constraints respectively. We also propose a broadcasting communication protocol with high energy efficiency and low latency for large scale sensor networks based on the Small World network theory. Simulation and experiment results show that our schemes and protocol have good performance.
