Toward low cost and highly reliable sensor networks deployment

ABSTRACT

In this paper, we attack the sensor network deployment problem. We define the deployment problem as the problem of deciding how many sensor nodes should be deployed in the sensor field and the number of deployment phases. We model WSN availability and the total cost as functions of the deployment strategy and use our modeling in seeking an optimal deployment strategy that meets user-defined availability requirement with minimum total cost.

REFERENCES

• 1: Mauro Leoncini , Giovanni Resta , Paolo Santi, Analysis of a wireless sensor dropping problem in wide-area environmental monitoring, Proceedings of the 4th international symposium on Information processing in sensor networks, April 24-27, 2005, Los Angeles, California
• 2: V. Isler et al. Sampling based sensor-network deployment. In Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ IROS'04, September 2004.
• 3: B. Gnedenko etl al. Mathematical Methods of Reliability Theory. Acadamic Press, 1969.

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  C. Computer Systems Organization
  C.3 SPECIAL-PURPOSE AND APPLICATION-BASED SYSTEMS
      Subjects: Signal processing systems

Additional Classification:
  C. Computer Systems Organization
  C.2 COMPUTER-COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
      C.2.0 General
          Subjects: Data communications
      C.2.3 Network Operations

General Terms:
Design, Experimentation, Management, Measurement, Performance

Keywords:
WSN availability, deployment problem