Coverage Maintenance using Mobile Nodes in Clustered Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless sensor networks constitute the platform of a broad range of applications related to national security, surveillance, military, health care, and environmental monitoring. The coverage problem for Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) has been studied extensively in recent years, especially when combined with connectivity and energy efficiency. This paper focuses on the sensor replacement problem in wireless sensor networks consists of mobile sensors. Mobility equipped sensors are utilized to recover and maintain the overall coverage using the dynamic cluster concept. The proposed fault repair solution does not assume the localization information is available. Mobile sensor nodes make use of simple geometric operation to locate and replace dying nodes to recover or increase the existing coverage and connectivity.