Mobility Limited Flip-Based Sensor Networks Deployment
Abstract
An important phase of sensor networks operation is deployment of sensors in the field of interest. Critical goals during sensor networks deployment include coverage, connectivity, load balancing, etc. A class of work has recently appeared, where mobility in sensors is leveraged to meet deployment objectives. In this paper, we study deployment of sensor networks using mobile sensors. The distinguishing feature of our work is that the sensors in our model have limited mobilities. More specifically, the mobility in the sensors we consider is restricted to a flip, where the distance of the flip is bounded. We call such sensors as flip-based sensors. Given an initial deployment of flip-based sensors in a field, our problem is to determine a movement plan for the sensors in order to maximize the sensor network coverage and minimize the number of flips. We propose a minimum-cost maximum-flow-based solution to this problem. We prove that our solution optimizes both the coverage and the number of flips. We also study the sensitivity of coverage and the number of flips to flip distance under different initial deployment distributions of sensors. We observe that increased flip distance achieves better coverage and reduces the number of flips required per unit increase in coverage. However, such improvements are constrained by initial deployment distributions of sensors due to the limitations on sensor mobility
Recommended Citation
S. Chellappan et al., "Mobility Limited Flip-Based Sensor Networks Deployment," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Feb 2007.
Department(s)
Computer Science
Sponsor(s)
National Science Foundation (U.S.)
Keywords and Phrases
Flip-Based Sensors; Limited Mobility; Sensor Networks Deployment
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
1045-9219
Document Type
Article - Journal
Document Version
Citation
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2007 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), All rights reserved.
Publication Date
01 Feb 2007