Coverage-enhancing approach in multimedia directional sensor networks for smart transportation

Abstract

Smart transportation has a significantly impact on city management and city planning, which has received extensive attentions from academic and industrial communities. Different from omni-directional sensing system, as a directional sensing system, the multimedia-directional sensor network holds the special coverage scheme, which is usually used for smart cities, smart transportation, and harsh environment surveillance, for instance, nuclear-pollution regions where are inhospitable for people. This paper advances Virtual Stream Artificial Fish-swarm based Coverage-Enhancing Algorithm (VSAFCEA) as a coverage-enhancing means in multimedia directional sensor networks. Firstly, a concept of virtual streams, based on traditional artificial fish-swarm algorithm, is proposed. Then, the traditional behaviors of fishes in artificial fish-swarm algorithm are modified and expanded with several new behaviors. Finally, the presented VSAFCEA is adopted for coverage-enhancing issue in the situation of directional sensor networks with rotational direction-adjustable model. With a sequence of steps of artificial fishes in virtual stream, the presented VSAFCEA can figure out the approximation to the highest area coverage rate. Based on comparison of these simulation results (results of presented VSAFCEA and that of other typical coverage-enhancing ways in directional sensor networks), the conclusion can be drawn that VSAFCEA could attain higher area coverage rate of directional sensor networks with fewer iterative computing times.