Towards Cluster Based Wireless Sensor Network Deployment Management and Network Coverage Verification

Authors:
Zhanyang Zhang
Affiliations:
Computer Science Department Colledge of Staten Island, City University of New York, Staten Island, USA NY 10314
Venue:
APNOMS '08 Proceedings of the 11th Asia-Pacific Symposium on Network Operations and Management: Challenges for Next Generation Network Operations and Service Management
Year:
2008

Citing 5
Cited 1

A performance comparison of multi-hop wireless ad hoc network routing protocols

MobiCom '98 Proceedings of the 4th annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Distributed localization in wireless sensor networks: a quantitative comparison

Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking - Special issue: Wireless sensor networks
Integrated coverage and connectivity configuration in wireless sensor networks

Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
The coverage problem in a wireless sensor network

Mobile Networks and Applications
A survey on sensor networks

IEEE Communications Magazine

Relay node placement with energy and buffer constraints in wireless sensor networks using mobile data collector

International Journal of Sensor Networks

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

In a wireless sensor network, the problems of determining sensor locations and verifying their coverage after deployment are challenging ones and they are crucial for many wireless sensor applications during deployment and post-deployment assessment. In this paper, we propose a cluster based approach to address these problems using location guided laser beams as stimulating signals to trigger randomly deployed sensor nodes self-organizing into clusters within virtually defined geographical-grids. Each cluster has a cluster header that can communicate with a base station about the cluster location and its membership. Both cluster location and membership information provide valuable measures for sensor network operators to assess the degree of coverage and network connectivity. With a feedback radio link from the base station to the agent that is carrying out the deployment, it is possible for the deployment agent to correct any coverage problems during the deployment phase instead of costly post-deployment reactions.