Swarm intelligence: Coverage and connectivity control for mobile sensors
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Mingjun Xiao; Liusheng Huang; He Huang; Pei Wang
- Source
- 2008 5th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems, 2008. MASS 2008. 5th IEEE International Conference on. :531-532 Sep, 2008
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Computing and Processing
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Signal Processing and Analysis
Sensors
Heuristic algorithms
Mobile communication
Mobile computing
Silicon
Algorithm design and analysis
Rivers
- Language
- ISSN
- 2155-6806
2155-6814
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 DC 3 . The simulation result shows that the dynamic coverage efficiency of this algorithm is significantly better than that of the random mobility model.