A distributed deployment algorithm with mobile sensors in wireless sensor network

Abstract

The sensor networks comprise of mobile and static sensor nodes always named as hybrid sensor network, which set up for the purpose of collaboratively tasks like sensing a phenomenon. Sensor deployment is an important problem in the hybrid wireless sensor networks, which affects the performance and lifetime of the networks. This paper presents a distributed deployment algorithm for mobile sensors. The algorithm is compared with a simulated annealing based algorithm for deployment with the metrics such as coverage, uniformity, time and distance and the Simulation results are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach. © 2012 Springer-Verlag GmbH.