The coverage problem in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) can be generally defined as a
measure of how effectively a network field is monitored by its sensor nodes. This problem …

A mobile wireless sensor network (M-WSN) consists of sensors equipped with locomotive
platforms to allow movement after initial deployment. M-WSNs are useful for environments …

The wireless sensor network (WSN) technology spawns a surge of unforeseen applications.
The diversity of these emerging applications represents the great success of this technology …

The coverage problem, as a fundamental problem for almost all types of applications in
wireless sensor networks (WSNs), has been studied for over a decade. Because of its …

Sweep coverage plays an important role in many applications such as data gathering,
sensing coverage and devices control. In this paper, we deal with the cooperative sweep …

Nowadays, with the development of micro-electro-mechanical technologies, sweep
coverage with mobile sensors is more and more popular in wireless sensor networks, which …

Periodic monitoring is sufficient for sweep coverage with a small number of mobile sensor
nodes, whereas a continuous monitoring with static sensor nodes is required for the …

Sweep coverage provides solutions for the applications in wireless sensor networks, where
periodic monitoring is sufficient instead of continuous monitoring. The objective of the sweep …

Several recent studies have demonstrated the benefits of using the Wireless Sensor
Network (WSN) technology in large-scale monitoring applications, such as planetary …

Sweep coverage is an important problem in wireless sensor networks. With sweep
coverage, more Points Of Interests (POIs) can be monitored with fewer mobile sensor nodes …