Maximum Lifetime Combined Barrier-coverage of Weak Static Sensors and Strong Mobile Sensors
Department
Computer Science
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-8-2016
Abstract
Recently, the concept of barrier-coverage of wireless sensor network has been introduced for various civilian and military defense applications. This paper studies the problem of how to organize hybrid sensor network, which consists of a number of energyscarce ground sensors with homogenous initial battery level and energy-plentiful mobile sensors, to maximum the lifetime of barriercoverage. Two key observations are (a) as the lifetime of each mobile sensor is much longer than that of the static ground sensors, each mobile sensor is capable of contributing multiple sensor barrier formations, and (b) no mobile sensor node can join two hybrid barriers which will be successively used to continuously protect the area of interest due to the moving delay. Based on these, we introduce a new maximum lifetime barrier-coverage problem in hybrid sensor network. We first propose a simple heuristic algorithm by combining existing ideas along with our own. Then, we design another efficient algorithm for the problem and prove that the lifetime of hybrid barrier constructed by this algorithm is at least three times greater than the existing one on average. Our simulation result shows that the second algorithm outperforms the first algorithm at least 33% and up to 100%.
Journal Title
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
Journal ISSN
1536-1233
Volume
PP
Issue
99
First Page
1
Last Page
12
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.1109/TMC.2016.2606403