Improving connectivity and coverage of wireless sensor networks using mobile robots

ISCI 2011 - 2011 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Informatics

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 454-459

  Houaidia, Chiraz ^a   Idoudi, Hanen ^a   Saidane, Leila Azouz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANOUBA   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

connectivity; coverage; redeployment; robots; wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIVITY; COVERAGE; COVERAGE HOLES; COVERAGE RATIO; NETWORK CONNECTIVITY; REDEPLOYMENT; SURVEILLANCE DATA; TARGET FIELDS; WIRELESS SENSOR;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFORMATION SCIENCE; MOBILE ROBOTS; SENSORS; TOPOLOGY;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 80052105203     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISCI.2011.5958958     Document Type: Conference Paper

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