Optimal coverage deployment for wireless sensor networks

Abstract

Wireless sensor networks provide an alternative way of improving our environments, such as environment surveillance, hazard monitoring, and other customized environmental applications. Good coverage of service in a sensor network is an essential issue to ensure the quality of service. This paper studies the deployment of new sensor nodes such that the improvement of the coverage is optimized. Based on computational geometry and graph theory, we propose an optimal polynomial time algorithm for sensor node deployment. We also prove the properties of such deployment and the correctness of the optimal solution