Target tracking is an important sensing application of wireless sensor networks. In these networks, energy, computing power, and communication bandwidth are scarce. We have considered a random heterogeneous wireless sensor network, which has several powerful nodes for data aggregation/relay and large number of energy-constrained sensor nodes that are deployed randomly to cover a given target area. In this paper, a cooperative approach to detect and monitor the path of a moving object using a minimum subset of nodes while maintaining coverage and network connectivity is proposed. It is tested extensively in a simulation environment and compared with other existing methods. The results of our experiments clearly indicate the benefits of our new approach in terms of energy consumption. © 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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Khedr, A. M., & Osamy, W. (2011). Effective target tracking mechanism in a self-organizing wireless sensor network. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 71(10), 1318–1326. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpdc.2011.06.001
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