Novel Deployment Schemes for Mobile Sensor Networks

Sensors

Jiming Chen¹  Shijian Li² 

[1] State Key of Industrial Control Technology, Zhejiang University Hangzhou 310027, P.R.China; E-mail: (;College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, P.R.China; E-mail: (

关键词: Virtual Force Algorithm;    Deployment;    Coverage;    Mobile Sensor Networks;   

DOI  :  10.3390/S7112907

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

Virtual Force Algorithm (VFA) is becoming a main solution to area coverage for homogeneous wireless sensor networks with random distribution of mobile sensor nodes. Consider the factors of the convergence, the boundary in Region Of Interest (ROI), effective distance of acting force and useless moving, etc, VFA is improved to overcome the above problems. Furthermore, an expression of exponential function for the relationship of virtual force is proposed to converge rapidly. Extensive simulation results indicate that these improved VFA get better performance in coverage rate, moving energy consumption, convergence etc. than original VFA.

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