Run to Potential: Sweep Coverage in Wireless Sensor Networks

—Wireless sensor networks have become a promising technology in monitoring physical world. In many applications with wireless sensor networks, it is essential to understand how well an interested area is monitored (covered) by sensors. The traditional way of evaluating sensor coverage requires that every point in the field should be monitored and the sensor network should be connected to transmit messages to a processing center (sink). Such a requirement is too strong to be financially practical in many scenarios. In this study, we address another type of coverage problem, sweep coverage, when we utilize mobile nodes as supplementary in a sparse and probably disconnected sensor network. Different from previous coverage problem, we focus on retrieving data from dynamic Points of Interest (POIs), where a sensor network does not necessarily have fixed data rendezvous points as POIs. Instead, any sensor node within the network could become a POI. We first analyze the relationship amo...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: ICPP
• Authors: Min Xi, Kui Wu, Yong Qi, Jizhong Zhao, Yunhao Liu, Mo Li
• Keywords: Distributed And Parallel Computing, ICPP 2009, Mobile Nodes, Sensor Network, —wireless Sensor Networks