Abstract Recently, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are widely used for monitoring and
tracking applications. Sensor mobility adds extra flexibility and greatly expands the …

Coverage of interest points and network connectivity are two main challenging and
practically important issues of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Although many studies …

In this paper, we consider the connected target coverage (CTC) problem with the objective
of maximizing the network lifetime by scheduling sensors into multiple sets, each of which …

In this paper, the problem of maintaining sensing coverage by keeping a small number of
active sensor nodes and a small amount of energy consumption in a wireless sensor …

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) employ numerous sensor nodes possessing sensing,
processing, and wireless communication abilities to monitor a specified sensing field. As …

An important problem in wireless ad hoc and sensor networks is to select a few nodes to
form a virtual backbone that supports routing and other tasks such as area monitoring …

Wireless sensor networks have attracted a lot of attention recently. Such environments may
consist of many inexpensive nodes, each capable of collecting, storing, and processing …

Target coverage and data collection are two fundamental problems for wireless sensor
networks (WSNs). Target coverage is needed to select sensors in a given area that can …

Coverage problem is an important issue in wireless sensor networks, which has a great
impact on the performance of wireless sensor networks. Given a sensor network, the …

When a large amount of sensors are randomly deployed into a field, how can we make a
sleep/activate schedule for sensors to maximize the lifetime of target coverage in the field …