Many animal aggregations display remarkable collective coordinated movements on a large scale, which emerge as a result of distributed local decision-making by individuals. The recent advances in modelling the collective motion of animals through the...
Considering that deployment strategies for underwater sensor networks should contribute to fully connecting the networks, a Guaranteed Full Connectivity Node Deployment (GFCND) algorithm is proposed in this study. The GFCND algorithm attempts to depl...
Existing node deployment algorithms for underwater sensor networks are nearly unable to improve the network coverage rate under the premise of ensuring the full network connectivity and do not optimize the communication and move energy consumption du...
Designing an efficient deployment method to guarantee optimal monitoring quality is one of the key topics in underwater sensor networks. At present, a realistic approach of deployment involves adjusting the depths of nodes in water. One of the typica...
A node non-uniform deployment based on clustering algorithm for underwater sensor networks (UWSNs) is proposed in this study. This algorithm is proposed because optimizing network connectivity rate and network lifetime is difficult for the existing n...
At present, free-to-move node self-deployment algorithms aim at event coverage and cannot improve network coverage under the premise of considering network connectivity, network reliability and network deployment energy consumption. Thus, this study...
Existing move-restricted node self-deployment algorithms are based on a fixed node communication radius, evaluate the performance based on network coverage or the connectivity rate and do not consider the number of nodes near the sink node and the en...
In this paper, we present an efficient way to find a gateway deployment for a given sensor network topology. We assume that the expired sensors and gateways can be replaced and the locations of the gateways are chosen among the given sensor nodes. Th...
Recently, forward-scatter radars (FSRs) utilizing the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) as a radiation source have gained increasing attention. The radar system enables aerial target surveillance by deploying multiple receiving nodes on the g...
How to effectively deploy all wireless sensors and save a system’s energy consumption is a key issue in current wireless sensor network (WSN) applications. Theoretical analysis has proven that a hexagonal structure is the best topology in the t...
The underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) have been applied in lots of fields such as environment monitoring, military surveillance, data collection, etc. Deployment of sensor nodes in 3D UWSNs is a crucial issue, however, it is a challenging p...
The key to the study of node deployment in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) is to find the appropriate location of the WSN nodes and reduce the cost of network deployment while meeting the monitoring requirements in the covered area. This paper propose...
This paper addresses the challenge of WSN topology optimisation through the development and implementation of a modified genetic algorithm (MGA). Unlike classical approaches, the proposed method is based on the assessment of sensor node distribution...
The deployment strategy for wireless sensor networks (WSNs) affects the quality of service (QoS). Adopting a reasonable deployment strategy can improve the QoS of WSNs. In this paper, the problem regarding sensor node deployment for WSNs on three-dim...
At present, there is still a lack of relevant theoretical guidance on the deployment of roadside RSU on expressways. In the face of the coexistence of V2V and V2I communication in the future, the deployment adjustment after the penetration of intelli...
Wireless sensor network deployment should be optimized to maximize network coverage. The D-S evidence theory is an effective means of information fusion that can handle not only uncertainty and inconsistency, but also ambiguity and instability. This...
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are suitable for the continuous monitoring of crop information in large-scale farmland. The information obtained is great for regulation of crop growth and achieving high yields in precision agriculture (PA). In order...
Internet of Things (IoT) and Big Data technologies are becoming increasingly significant parts of national defense and the military, as well as in the civilian usage. The proper deployment of large-scale wireless sensor network (WSN) provides the fou...
The Internet of Things technology provides convenience for data acquisition in environmental monitoring and environmental protection and can also avoid invasive damage caused by traditional data acquisition methods. An adaptive cooperative optimizati...
Mobile edge computing (MEC) has become an effective solution for insufficient computing and communication problems for the Internet of Things (IoT) applications due to its rich computing resources on the edge side. In multi-terminal scenarios, the de...
Efficient data processing and signal acquisition are becoming increasingly critical. Pipeline networks present unique topological constraints that complicate the balance between signal sampling efficiency and data-transmission reliability. In this pa...
Wireless sensor network (WSN) applications are rapidly growing and are widely used in various disciplines. Deployment is one of the key issues to be solved in WSNs, since the sensor nodes’ positioning affects highly the system performance. An optimal...
As the number of intelligent devices in mining environments increases, the transmission time for large datasets, including equipment status and environmental parameters, also rises. This increase leads to longer response times for service requests, m...
With the rapid development of unmanned aerial vehicle in space exploration and national defense, large-scale wireless sensor network (WSN) became an important and effective technology. It may require highly accurate locating for the nodes in some rea...
Using autonomously operating mobile sensor nodes to form adaptive wireless sensor networks has great potential for monitoring applications in the real world. Especially in, e.g., disaster response scenarios—that is, when the environment is pote...
To further enhance the deployment efficiency of synchronous phasor measurement units and rationally select deployment configuration schemes, an improved configuration method based on integer programming algorithms is proposed. Based on the existing d...
The self-deployment of nodes with non-uniform coverage in underwater acoustic sensor networks (UASNs) is challenging because it is difficult to access the three-dimensional underwater environment. The problem is further complicated if network connect...
Most of the existing node depth-adjustment deployment algorithms for underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) just consider how to optimize network coverage and connectivity rate. However, these literatures don’t discuss full network connectivity,...
In mobile wireless sensor networks (MWSN), nodes are allowed to move autonomously for deployment. This process is meant: (i) to achieve good coverage; and (ii) to distribute the communication load as homogeneously as possible. Rather than optimizing...
The effectiveness of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) depends on the coverage and target detection probability provided by dynamic deployment, which is usually supported by the virtual force (VF) algorithm. However, in the VF algorithm, the virtual fo...
This paper introduces an efficient barrier model for enhancing smart building surveillance in harsh environment with thin walls and structures. After the main research problem of minimizing the total number of wall-recognition surveillance barriers,...
Positioning, coverage, and connectivity play important roles in next-generation wireless network applications. The coverage in a wireless sensor network (WSN) is a measure of how effectively a region of interest (ROI) is monitored and targets are det...
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) became essential in developing many applications, including smart cities and Internet of Things (IoT) applications. WSN has been used in many critical applications such as healthcare, military, and transportation. Such...
Autonomous mobile nodes in mobile wireless sensor networks (MWSN) allow self-deployment and self-healing. In both cases, the goals are: (i) to achieve adequate coverage; and (ii) to extend network life. In dynamic environments, nodes may use reactive...
In recent years, different types of monitoring systems have been designed for various applications, in order to turn the urban environments into smart cities. Most of these systems consist of wireless sensor networks (WSN)s, and the designing of thes...
In order to achieve more effective online monitoring of distribution cables, a deployment scheme of the distribution cable condition monitoring devices based on a wireless sensor network (WSN) has been proposed. The proposed deployment scheme can imp...
This study addresses the optimization of node redeployment coverage in underwater wireless sensor networks. Given that nodes could easily become invalid under a poor environment and the large scale of underwater wireless sensor networks, an underwate...
The limited energy supply of wireless sensor networks poses a great challenge for the deployment of wireless sensor nodes. In this paper, we focus on energy-efficient coverage with distributed particle swarm optimization and simulated annealing. Firs...
The modeling of the sensing area of a sensor node is essential for the deployment algorithm of wireless sensor networks (WSNs). In this paper, a polygon model is proposed for the sensor node with directional sensing area. In addition, a WSN deploymen...
Most existing deployment algorithms for event coverage in underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) usually do not consider that network communication has non-uniform characteristics on three-dimensional underwater environments. Such deployment alg...
Directional sensor networks are a widely used architecture in the sensing layer of the Internet of Things (IoT), which has excellent data collection and transmission capabilities. The coverage hole caused by random deployment of sensors is the main f...
In order to address the problems of redundancy and waste of resources in the deployment of monitoring points in mesoscale chemical hazard areas, we propose a method for the deployment of monitoring points in mesoscale chemical hazard areas by combini...
The increasing demands for real-time marine monitoring call for the wide deployment of Marine Monitoring Networks (MMNs). The low-rate underwater communications over a long distance, long propagation delay of underwater acoustic channel, and high dep...
Clustering in wireless sensor networks plays a vital role in solving energy and scalability issues. Although multiple deployment structures and cluster shapes have been implemented, they sometimes fail to produce the expected outcomes owing to differ...
Wireless sensor network (WSN) deployment is an intensive field of research. In this paper, we propose a novel approach based on machine learning (ML) and metaheuristics (MH) for supporting decision-makers during the deployment process. We suggest opt...
The underwater acoustic sensor network (UWASN) is a system that exchanges data between numerous sensor nodes deployed in the sea. The UWASN uses an underwater acoustic communication technique to exchange data. Therefore, it is important to design a r...
In the wireless sensor networks (WSNs) for electric field measurement system under the High-Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) transmission lines, it is necessary to obtain the electric field distribution with multiple sensors. The location information of...
A wireless sensor network (WSN) consists of sensors with wireless transceivers that link autonomously over many hops. It offers various advantages, including less traffic, more stability, extended wireless communication distances, and broader coverag...
Wireless sensor networks encounter issues like irregular deployment, node failures, and uneven energy consumption that create coverage holes, leading to a reduction in network lifetime in critical or disaster-based applications. Most existing approac...
Lifetime optimization is one of the key issues among the many challenges of wireless sensor networks. The introduction of a small number of high-performance relay nodes can effectively improve the quality of the network services. However, how to depl...
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