One of the primary objectives of Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is to provide full coverage of a sensing field as long as possible. The deployment strategy of sensor nodes in the sensor field is the most critical factor related to the network coverage. However, the traditional deployment methods can cause coverage holes in the sensing field. Therefore, this paper proposes a new deployment method based on Multi-objective Immune Algorithm (MIA) and binary sensing model to alleviate these coverage holes. MIA is adopted here to maximize the coverage area of WSN by rearranging the mobile sensors based on limiting their mobility within their communication range to preserve the connectivity among them. The performance of the proposed algorithm is compared with the previous algorithms using Matlab simulation for different network environments with and without obstacles. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm improves the coverage area and the mobility cost of WSN.
Research Member
          
      Research Department
              
          Research Year
              2015
          Research Journal
              Computers & Electrical Engineering  
          Research Publisher
              Science direct, Elsevier
          Research Vol
              Vol. 43 
          Research Rank
              1
          Research_Pages
              pp. 76-89
          Research Website
              http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0045790615001317
          Research Abstract