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A survey on barrier coverage with sensors

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For various applications, sensors are deployed to monitor belt regions to guarantee that every movement crossing a barrier of sensors will be detected in real-time with high accuracy and minimize the need for human support. The barrier coverage problem is introduced to model these requirements, and has been examined thoroughly in the past decades. In this survey, we state the problem definitions and systematically consider sensing models, design issues and challenges in barrier coverage problem. We also review representative algorithms in this survey. Furthermore, we provide discussions on some extensions and variants of barrier coverage problems.

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    Fan Wu, Yang Gui, Xiaofeng Gao & Guihai Chen

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Fan Wu is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. He received his BS in computer science from Nanjing University, China in 2004, and PhD in computer science and engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo, USA in 2009. He has visited the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) as a Post Doc Research Associate. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers in leading technical journals and conference proceedings. He is a recipient of the first class prize for Natural Science Award of China Ministry of Education, NSFC Excellent Young Scholars Program in 2014, ACM China Rising Star Award, and Pujiang Scholar. He has served as the chair of CCF YOCSEF Shanghai, on the editorial board of Elsevier Computer Communications, and as the member of technical program committees of more than 60 academic conferences. His research interests include wireless networking and mobile computing, algorithmic game theory and its applications, and privacy preservation.

Yang Gui is a graduate student from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. He is a student member of ACM, CCF, and IEEE. His research interests lie in mobile social network and resource management in wireless networking.

Zhibo Wang received the BE degree in automation from Zhejiang University, China in 2007, and his PhD degree in electrical engineering and computer science from University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA in 2014. He is currently an associate professor with the School of Computer,Wuhan University, China. He is a member of IEEE and ACM. His currently research interests include wireless sensor networks and mobile sensing systems.

Xiaofeng Gao received the BS degree in information and computational science from Nankai University, China in 2004; the MS degree in operations research and control theory from Tsinghua University, China in 2006; and the PhD degree in computer science from The University of Texas at Dallas, USA in 2010. She is currently an associate professor with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. She has published more than 80 peerreviewed papers and 6 book chapters in the related area, and she has served as the PCs and peer reviewers for a number of international conferences and journals. Her research interests include wireless communications, data engineering, and combinatorial optimizations.

Guihai Chen earned his BS degree from Nanjing University, China in 1984, ME degree from Southeast University, China in 1987, and PhD degree from the University of Hong Kong, China in 1997. He is a distinguished professor of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. He had been invited as a visiting professor by many universities including Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan in 1998, University of Queensland, Australia in 2000, and Wayne State University, USA during September 2001 to August 2003. He has published more than 250 peer-reviewed papers, and more than 170 of them are in well-archived international journals such as IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Wireless Networks, The Computer Journal, International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science, and Performance Evaluation, and also in well-known conference proceedings such as HPCA, MOBIHOC, INFOCOM, ICNP, ICPP, IPDPS and ICDCS. He has a wide range of research interests with focus on sensor networks, peer-to-peer computing, high-performance computer architecture and combinatorics.

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Wu, F., Gui, Y., Wang, Z. et al. A survey on barrier coverage with sensors. Front. Comput. Sci. 10, 968–984 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11704-016-5532-4

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