Coverage Strategies in Wireless Sensor Networks: A rigorous analysis - Softcover

Watfa, Mohamed Khalil

Softcover

ISBN 10: 363917335X ISBN 13: 9783639173352

Publisher: VDM Verlag, 2009

Synopsis

A wireless sensor network (WSN) is a network of distributed nodes, each equipped with sensors, computational elements, and transceivers. These networks are able to sense a desired phenomenon over a large geographic region and communicate this information back to the user or to a sink. While the use of these networks has been demonstrated, their full capabilities have not been realized, primarily due to the lack of efficient algorithms for self organization and fault tolerant operation. A fundamental issue in the deployment of a large scale WSN is the ability of the network to cover the region of interest. While it is important to know if the region is covered by the deployed sensor nodes, it is of even greater importance to determine the minimum number of these deployed sensors that will still guarantee coverage of the region. This issue takes on added importance as the sensor nodes have limited battery power. In this book, the coverage problem in a three dimensional space is rigorously analyzed and the minimum number of sensor nodes and their placement for complete coverage is determined.

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About the Author

Dr. Mohamed K. Watfa has held faculty positions at several universities including Univ. of Wollongong and AUB. He received his Ph.D. from the Univ. of Oklahoma in 2006 and was one of the youngest PhD holders at the age of 23. His research interests include wireless sensor networks & VANETs. He has more than 40 peer reviewed publications.

Edition details

• Publisher: VDM Verlag
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 363917335X
• ISBN 13: 9783639173352
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264