Swarm intelligence: Coverage and connectivity control for mobile sensors

Author

Xiao, Mingjun ; Huang, Liusheng ; Huang, He ; Wang, Pei

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Technol., Univ. of Sci. & Technol. of China, Changsha

fYear

2008

fDate

Sept. 29 2008-Oct. 2 2008

Firstpage

531

Lastpage

532

Abstract

It is significant to deploy a mobile sensor network periodically sweeping from the upriver to the downriver to monitor the water quality of the third large river in China. An important problem in this network is how to maximize the dynamic coverage efficiency while maintain the connectivity of network. To solve this problem, we borrow the idea of flocking-birds model in artificial life field and propose a distributed coverage and connectivity control algorithm DC³. The simulation result shows that the dynamic coverage efficiency of this algorithm is significantly better than that of the random mobility model.

Keywords

artificial life; mobile radio; rivers; water supply; wireless sensor networks; China; artificial life; connectivity control; coverage control; mobile sensor network; network connectivity; random mobility model; swarm intelligence; water quality monitoring; Computer science; Computerized monitoring; Electronic mail; Helium; Intelligent sensors; Mobile computing; Motion control; Particle swarm optimization; Rivers; Water pollution;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems, 2008. MASS 2008. 5th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Atlanta, GA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2574-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2575-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MAHSS.2008.4660078

Filename

4660078