Movement-Assisted Sensor Deployment Algorithms: A Survey and Taxonomy

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 2493-2510

  Senouci, Mustapha Reda ^a   Mellouk, Abdelhamid ^b   Asnoune, Khalid ^a   Bouhidel, Fethi Yazid ^a  

^a ECOLE MILITAIRE POLYTECHNIQUE   (Algeria)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST CRÉTEIL   (France)

Author keywords

connectivity; coverage; Mobile wireless sensor networks; movementassisted sensor deployment; self deployment schemes

Indexed keywords

SURVEYS; TAXONOMIES;

CONNECTIVITY; COVERAGE; MOBILE WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK; SELF-DEPLOYMENT; SENSOR DEPLOYMENT;

SENSOR NODES;

EID: 84969920692     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553877X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/COMST.2015.2407954     Document Type: Article

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