Title :
Bio-inspired mobility in environment aware wireless sensor networks
Author :
Doumit, S.O. ; Agrawal, D.P.
Author_Institution :
Center for Distributed & Mobile Comput., Cincinnati Univ., OH, USA
Abstract :
Today´s wireless sensors act as information agents, our eyes and ears, for all types of applications, especially in inaccessible regions. But these sensors are resource-constrained devices; the key challenges remain in exploiting their limited time-life. A crucial factor to achieve this is to develop appropriate mobility models that would assure high information coverage of the desired deployed region within the area. We propose a biologically inspired mobility model to direct sensors´ movement towards the target area. We show the benefits acquired in terms of data coverage and efficient resource-utilization.
Keywords :
wireless sensor networks; bio-inspired mobility; data coverage; efficient resource utilization; environment aware wireless sensor networks; high information coverage; information agents; resource-constrained devices; sensor movement; Intelligent networks; Pervasive computing; Wireless sensor networks;
Conference_Titel :
Pervasive Computing and Communications, 2003. (PerCom 2003). Proceedings of the First IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Fort Worth, TX
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1893-1
DOI :
10.1109/PERCOM.2003.1192782