A mobile assisted coverage hole patching scheme based on particle swarm optimization for WSNs

Wang, J., Ju, C., Kim, H.-j., Sherratt, R. S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7899-4445 and Lee, S. (2019) A mobile assisted coverage hole patching scheme based on particle swarm optimization for WSNs. Cluster Computing, 22 (1). pp. 1787-1795. ISSN 1386-7857 doi: 10.1007/s10586-017-1586-9

Abstract/Summary

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have drawn much research attention in recent years due to the superior performance in multiple applications, such as military and industrial monitoring, smart home, disaster restoration etc. In such applications, massive sensor nodes are randomly deployed and they remain static after the deployment, to fully cover the target sensing area. This will usually cause coverage redundancy or coverage hole problem. In order to effectively deploy sensors to cover whole area, we present a novel node deployment algorithm based on mobile sensors. First, sensor nodes are randomly deployed in target area, and they remain static or switch to the sleep mode after deployment. Second, we partition the network into grids and calculate the coverage rate of each grid. We select grids with lower coverage rate as candidate grids. Finally, we awake mobile sensors from sleep mode to fix coverage hole, particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm is used to calculate moving position of mobile sensors. Simulation results show that our algorithm can effectively improve the coverage rate of WSNs.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/74429
Identification Number/DOI	10.1007/s10586-017-1586-9
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Life Sciences > School of Biological Sciences > Biomedical Sciences Life Sciences > School of Biological Sciences > Department of Bio-Engineering
Publisher	Springer
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