TY - GEN
T1 - A bidding protocol for deploying mobile sensors
AU - Wang, Guiling
AU - Cao, Guohong
AU - Laporta, T.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2003 IEEE.
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - In some harsh environments, manually deploying sensors is impossible. Alternative methods may lead to imprecise placement resulting in coverage holes. To provide the required high coverage in these situations, we propose to deploy sensor networks composed of a mixture of mobile and static sensors in which mobile sensors can move from dense areas to sparse areas to improve the overall coverage. This paper presents a bidding protocol to assist the movement of mobile sensors. In the protocol, static sensors detect coverage holes locally by using Voronoi diagrams, and bid for mobile sensors based on the size of the detected hole. Mobile sensors choose coverage holes to heal based on the bid. Simulation results show that our algorithm provides suitable tradeoff between coverage and sensor cost.
AB - In some harsh environments, manually deploying sensors is impossible. Alternative methods may lead to imprecise placement resulting in coverage holes. To provide the required high coverage in these situations, we propose to deploy sensor networks composed of a mixture of mobile and static sensors in which mobile sensors can move from dense areas to sparse areas to improve the overall coverage. This paper presents a bidding protocol to assist the movement of mobile sensors. In the protocol, static sensors detect coverage holes locally by using Voronoi diagrams, and bid for mobile sensors based on the size of the detected hole. Mobile sensors choose coverage holes to heal based on the bid. Simulation results show that our algorithm provides suitable tradeoff between coverage and sensor cost.
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U2 - 10.1109/ICNP.2003.1249781
DO - 10.1109/ICNP.2003.1249781
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:78751686037
T3 - Proceedings - International Conference on Network Protocols, ICNP
SP - 315
EP - 324
BT - Proceedings - 11th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, ICNP 2003
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 11th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, ICNP 2003
Y2 - 4 November 2003 through 7 November 2003
ER -