Adaptive Trap Coverage in Mobile Sensor Networks

Abstract

In this paper, a novel mechanism for adaptive trap coverage in area coverage model by using mobile sensors is proposed. Many applications, such as target detection and tracking, are highly required with the characteristics of trap coverage, especially adjusting the trap size adaptively in terms of sensors movement in mobile sensor networks (MSNs). This paper is to propose an adaptive mechanism for trap coverage relied on the cooperation of the involved mobile sensors to either shrink or expend the trap. The trap exists to incur that the target has predictably vanished and remains undetected. The experimental results show that the adaptive trap coverage can be explored in an efficient way by the energy consumption of sensor movement and the number of data communications among sensors.