Abstract

The effectiveness of distributed wireless sensor networks highly depends on the sensor deployment scheme. Given a finite number of sensors, optimizing the sensor deployment will provide sufficient sensor coverage and ameliorate the quality of communications. In this paper, we apply fuzzy logic systems to optimize the sensor placement after an initial random deployment. We use the outage probability due to co-channel interference to evaluate the communication quality. Fenton–Wilkinson method is applied to approximate the sum of log-normal random variables. Our algorithm is compared against the existing distributed self-spreading algorithm. Simulation results show that our approach achieves faster and stabler deployment and maximizes the sensor coverage with less energy consumption. Outage probability, as a measure of communication quality gets effectively decreased in our algorithm but it was not taken into consideration in the distributed self-spreading algorithm.

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