Constructing a wireless sensor network to fully cover critical grids by deploying minimum sensors on grid points is NP-Complete

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 710-715

  Ke, Wei Chieh ^a   Liu, Bing Hong ^a   Tsai, Ming Jer ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Coverage problem; NP Complete; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; GRID COMPUTING;

COVERAGE PROBLEM; FULLY COVER CRITICAL GRIDS; GRID POINTS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 34147107399     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TC.2007.1019     Document Type: Article

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