A New Optimal Deployment Algorithm for Actor Node in WSAN

Cooperation of sensors and actors is an important research field in WSAN. To improve the efficiency of WSAN, based on QPSO (Quantum-behaved Particle Swarm Optimization), this paper proposed a new coverage optimization strategy for actor deployment in WSAN. By adopting a number of particles independently searching for solution space, they can share the current global optimal value at a certain communication rate. Through experiments, the results show that the proposed method is more effective than conventional ones in terms of coverage rate and real-time performance.