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Area Coverage in a Fixed-Obstacle Environment using Mobile Sensor Networks

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Kamran Sayrafian, Hamid Mahboubi, Amir Aghdam

Abstract

In this chapter, efficient deployment strategies for mobile sensor networks are proposed to improve the coverage area in target fields containing obstacles. The developed algorithms iteratively calcu- late and update the position of the sensors in order to improve the overall achievable coverage by the network. The visibility-aware multiplicatively weighted Voronoi (VMW-Voronoi) diagram is used to discover coverage gaps in networks that have sensors with different sensing capabilities. The sensors, then, reduce the size of the coverage gaps in the target field. The relocation strategy also considers possible existing obstacles on the field. Simulation results are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed distributed deployment schemes.
Citation
Control and Systems Engineering - A Report on on Decades of Contribution
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Springer, New York, NY
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Book Chapters

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14636--2-7
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Wireless (RF), Networking and Modeling and simulation research

Citation

Sayrafian, K. , Mahboubi, H. and , A. (2015), Area Coverage in a Fixed-Obstacle Environment using Mobile Sensor Networks, Control and Systems Engineering - A Report on on Decades of Contribution, Springer, New York, NY, [online], https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14636--2-7 (Accessed October 13, 2025)

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Created May 17, 2015, Updated May 15, 2020
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