Minimizing movement for target coverage and network connectivity in mobile sensor networks

Z Liao, J Wang, S Zhang, J Cao… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Coverage of interest points and network connectivity are two main challenging and
practically important issues of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Although many studies …

Energy-efficient probabilistic area coverage in wireless sensor networks

Q Yang, S He, J Li, J Chen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As the binary sensing model is a coarse approximation of reality, the probabilistic sensing
model has been proposed as a more realistic model for characterizing the sensing region. A …

Mobile sensor networks: system hardware and dispatch software

YC Wang - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2014 - dl.acm.org
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) provide a convenient way to monitor the physical
environment. They consist of a large number of sensors that have sensing, computing, and …

Curve-based deployment for barrier coverage in wireless sensor networks

S He, X Gong, J Zhang, J Chen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper studies deterministic sensor deployment for barrier coverage in wireless sensor
networks. Most of existing works focused on line-based deployment, ignoring a wide …

Sensor scheduling for multi-modal confident information coverage in sensor networks

X Deng, B Wang, W Liu, LT Yang - IEEE Transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network lifetime maximization with guaranteed coverage is an important issue in wireless
sensor networks. Based on our recently proposed confident information coverage (CIC) …

Fault tolerant barrier coverage for wireless sensor networks

Z Wang, H Chen, Q Cao, H Qi… - IEEE INFOCOM 2014 …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Barrier coverage is a critical issue in wireless sensor networks for security applications (eg,
border protection), the performance of which is highly related with locations of sensor nodes …

Rotating directional sensors to mend barrier gaps in a line-based deployed directional sensor network

J Chen, B Wang, W Liu, LT Yang… - IEEE Systems Journal, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The barrier coverage of a wireless sensor network is an important surveillance application of
Internet of Things. Barrier coverage guarantees that all intruders traversing the protected …

2D k-barrier duty-cycle scheduling for intruder detection in wireless sensor networks

J Tian, W Zhang, G Wang, X Gao - Computer Communications, 2014 - Elsevier
Intruder detection is an important application in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Barrier
coverage, which requires much fewer sensors than full coverage, is broadly known as an …

Fortifying barrier-coverage of wireless sensor network with mobile sensor nodes

B Xu, D Kim, D Li, J Lee, H Jiang, AO Tokuta - … Algorithms, Systems, and …, 2014 - Springer
Recently, the barrier-coverage of wireless sensor network received huge attention thanks to
the important applications such as border protection. In practice, sensor nodes are subject to …

Detect smart intruders in sensor networks by creating network dynamics

J Tian, G Wang, T Yan, W Zhang - Computer Networks, 2014 - Elsevier
Intruder detection is an important application in wireless sensor networks. This paper
focuses on detecting smart intruders whose purpose is to cross the monitored area and who …