Coverage Control in Sensor Networks

• Main Author: Wang, Bang
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: London Springer Nature 2010; Springer Verlag London Limited; Springer; Springer London, Limited; Springer London
• Edition: 1. Aufl.
• Series: Computer Communications and Networks
• Subjects: Computer Communication Networks; Computer programming, programs, data; Computer Science; Sensor networks; Computer Netzwerke
• ISBN: 9781849960595; 1849960593; 1849960585; 9781849960588
• ISSN: 1617-7975
• DOI: 10.1007/978-1-84996-059-5

This easy-to-read text focuses on challenges in coverage control in sensor networks, examines fundamental coverage problems, and presents the most recent advances and techniques in the field. Features: provides an introduction to sensors, sensor nodes, sensor networks, and sensor coverage models, supplies an informal definition and taxonomy for network-wide coverage control, explores the node placement optimization problem for coverage configuration before network deployment, investigates the coverage lifetime maximization problem by controlling coverage characteristics in a randomly deployed network, discusses the critical sensor-density problem for coverage configuration before network deployment, examines the sensor-activity scheduling problem of controlling network coverage characteristics in a randomly deployed network, introduces the node movement strategy problem for sensor networks containing mobile nodes, presents the challenges of building intrusion barriers and finding penetration paths.