ACO FOR OPTIMAL SENSOR LAYOUT

Stefka Fidanova, Pencho Marinov, Enrique Alba

2010

Abstract

Metaheuristic methods have frequently been applied to telecommunication problems in the last years. One of these problems is Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) layout, which is an NP-hard optimization problem. The sensors sent their sensing results to a special station called the High Energy Communication Node (HECN). The sensing area of the WSN is the union of the individual sensing areas of the nodes. When deploying a WSN, the major objective is to achieve full coverage of the terrain (sensor field). Another objectives are also to use a minimum number of sensor nodes and to keep the connectivity of the network. In this paper we address a WSN layout problem in which full coverage and connectivity are treated as constraints, while objective function is the number of the sensors. To solve it we propose Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) algorithm. The terrain is modeled with 500×500 points grid and both sensing radius and communication radius are set to 30. We compare our results with existing evolutionary algorithms.

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in Harvard Style

Fidanova S., Marinov P. and Alba E. (2010). ACO FOR OPTIMAL SENSOR LAYOUT . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Evolutionary Computation - Volume 1: ICEC, (IJCCI 2010) ISBN 978-989-8425-31-7, pages 5-9. DOI: 10.5220/0003057600050009


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icec10,
author={Stefka Fidanova and Pencho Marinov and Enrique Alba},
title={ACO FOR OPTIMAL SENSOR LAYOUT},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Evolutionary Computation - Volume 1: ICEC, (IJCCI 2010)},
year={2010},
pages={5-9},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003057600050009},
isbn={978-989-8425-31-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Evolutionary Computation - Volume 1: ICEC, (IJCCI 2010)
TI - ACO FOR OPTIMAL SENSOR LAYOUT
SN - 978-989-8425-31-7
AU - Fidanova S.
AU - Marinov P.
AU - Alba E.
PY - 2010
SP - 5
EP - 9
DO - 10.5220/0003057600050009