Self-organization Strategies for Dynamic Context Coverage in Capability-Constrained Mobile Sensor Networks

We propose and formally characterize a new problem named the dynamic context coverage problem in capabilityconstrained mobile sensor network environments. The goal is to move and adjust a network of mobile sensors with limited sensing capabilities to quickly achieve good coverage of dynamic changing contexts and continuously maintain the level of coverage. We propose several self-organization strategies and algorithms to solve the problem. Simulation results demonstrate that our techniques are highly effective in terms of dynamic context coverage, moving distance and self-organized deployment patterns.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: SUTC
• Authors: Shiow-yang Wu, Chao-Hong Liu, Chen-Kuang Tzeng
• Keywords: Context Coverage Problem, Dynamic Context Coverage, Mobile Sensors, SUTC 2006