Purposeful mobility for relaying and surveillance in mobile ad hoc sensor networks

R Rao, G Kesidis - IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider a mobile ad hoc sensor network. The mobility of the sensor nodes is designed
with the cost of communication and mobility in mind along with consideration of the possible …

Distributed mobility management for target tracking in mobile sensor networks

Y Zou, K Chakrabarty - IEEE Transactions on Mobile computing, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobility management is a major challenge in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) due in part
to the dynamically changing network topologies. For mobile sensor networks that are …

Exploiting mobility for energy efficient data collection in wireless sensor networks

S Jain, RC Shah, W Brunette, G Borriello… - Mobile networks and …, 2006 - Springer
We analyze an architecture based on mobility to address the problem of energy efficient
data collection in a sensor network. Our approach exploits mobile nodes present in the …

Improving the data delivery latency in sensor networks with controlled mobility

R Sugihara, RK Gupta - … Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor …, 2008 - Springer
Unlike traditional multihop forwarding among homogeneous static sensor nodes, use of
mobile devices for data collection in wireless sensor networks has recently been gathering …

Worst case mobility in ad hoc networks

C Schindelhauer, T Lukovszki, S Rührup… - Proceedings of the …, 2003 - dl.acm.org
We investigate distributed algorithms for mobile ad hoc networks for moving radio stations
with adjustable transmission power in a worst case scenario. We consider two models to find …

Mobile network management and robust spatial retreats via network dynamics

K Ma, Y Zhang, W Trappe - IEEE International Conference on …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The mobility provided by mobile ad hoc and sensor networks will facilitate new mobility-
oriented services. Recent work has demonstrated that, for many issues, mobility is …

Coverage in hybrid mobile sensor networks

W Wang, V Srinivasan, KC Chua - IEEE Transactions on …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper considers the coverage problem for hybrid networks which comprise both static
and mobile sensors. The mobile sensors in our network only have limited mobility, ie, they …

Using mobile relays to prolong the lifetime of wireless sensor networks

W Wang, V Srinivasan, KC Chua - Proceedings of the 11th annual …, 2005 - dl.acm.org
In this paper we investigate the benefits of a heterogeneous architecture for wireless sensor
networks composed of a few resource rich mobile nodes and a large number of simple static …

Energy optimization under informed mobility

C Tang, PK McKinley - IEEE Transactions on Parallel and …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Energy optimization is important in wireless ad hoc networks, where node battery power is
usually limited. Research results show that such a network can exploit controlled node …

Energy conserving movement-assisted deployment of ad hoc sensor networks

H Mousavi, A Nayyeri, N Yazdani… - IEEE Communications …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Sensor network deployment is very challenging due to hostile and unpredictable nature of
usage environments. In this letter, we propose two methods for the self-deployment of …