Minimizing energy consumption of wheeled mobile robots via optimal motion planning

S Liu, D Sun - IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a new optimal motion planning aiming to minimize the energy
consumption of a wheeled mobile robot in robot applications. A model that can be used to …

Energy-efficient intrusion detection with a barrier of probabilistic sensors: Global and local

J Chen, J Li, TH Lai - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Intrusion detection is a significant application in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). S. Kumar
et al have introduced the concept of barrier coverage, which deploys sensors in a narrow …

Trapping mobile targets in wireless sensor networks: An energy-efficient perspective

J Chen, J Li, TH Lai - IEEE Transactions on Vehicular …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobile target detection is a significant application in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). In
fact, it is rather expensive to require every part of the region of interest (RoI) to be covered in …

EMD: Energy-efficient P2P message dissemination in delay-tolerant wireless sensor and actor networks

S He, X Li, J Chen, P Cheng, Y Sun… - IEEE Journal on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we address the problem of peer-to-peer networking for data dissemination
among actors in wireless sensor and actor networks (WSANs), which consist of static …

Energy-efficient sensor scheduling algorithm in cognitive radio networks employing heterogeneous sensors

X Liu, BG Evans, K Moessner - IEEE Transactions on Vehicular …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider, in this paper, the maximization of throughput in a dense network of
collaborative cognitive radio (CR) sensors with limited energy supply. In our case, the …

On energy-efficient trap coverage in wireless sensor networks

J Chen, J Li, S He, T He, Y Gu, Y Sun - ACM Transactions on Sensor …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
In wireless sensor networks (WSNs), trap coverage has recently been proposed to trade off
between the availability of sensor nodes and sensing performance. It offers an efficient …

Optimal mobile sensor scheduling for a guaranteed coverage ratio in hybrid wireless sensor networks

Z Fu, K You - International Journal of Distributed Sensor …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper proposes an optimal mobile sensor-scheduling algorithm for recovering the
failure sensors in hybrid wireless sensor networks (WSNs). To maintain a guaranteed …

An energy-efficient motion strategy for mobile sensors in mixed wireless sensor networks

ZJ Zhang, JS Fu, HC Chao - International Journal of …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
The mixed wireless sensor networks that are composed of a mixture of mobile and static
sensors are the tradeoff between cost and coverage. To provide the required high coverage …

[PDF][PDF] Ant colony with colored pheromones routing for multi objectives quality of services in wsns

FR Yazdi - International journal of research in computer science, 2013 - Citeseer
In this article, we present a new Ant-routing algorithm with colored pheromones and
clustering techniques for satisfying users' Quality of Service (QoS) requirements in Wireless …

A novel algorithm to improve network lifetime of wireless sensor networks

R Ma, YC Liu, C Wang - Applied Mechanics and Materials, 2013 - Trans Tech Publ
One approach to extend the network lifetime is to divide the deployed sensors into disjoint
subsets of sensors, or sensor covers, such that each sensor cover can cover all targets and …