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Assuring K-Coverage in the Presence of Mobility in Wireless Sensor Networks

H. Yu, J. Iyer, H. Kim, E. J. Kim, K. H. Yum and P. S. Mah

Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM2006

Along with energy conservation, it has been a critical issue to maintain a desired degree of coverage in wireless sensor networks (WSNs), especially in a mobile environment. By enhancing a variant of Random Waypoint (RWP) model [1], we propose Mobility Resilient Coverage Control (MRCC) to assure K-coverage in the presence of mobility. Our basic goals are 1) to elaborate the probability of breaking K-coverage with moving-in and moving-out probabilities, and 2) to issue wake-up calls to sleeping sensors to meet user requirement of K-coverage even in the presence of mobility. Furthermore, by separating the mobility behavior into average and individual, the probability of breaking K-coverage can be precisely calculated, hence reducing the number of sensors to be awakened. Our experiments with NS2 show that MRCC with the individual probability achieves better coverage by 1.4% with 22% fewer numbers of active sensors than that of existing Coverage Configuration Protocol (CCP) [2]

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