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Hybrid Wireless Sensors Deployment Scheme with Connectivity and Coverage Maintaining in Wireless Sensor Networks

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With the rapid growth of the internet of things (IoT), an impressive number of IoT’s application based on wireless sensor networks (WSNs) has been deployed in various domain. Due to its wide ranged applications, WSNs that have the capability to monitor a given sensing field, became the most used platform of IoT. Therefore, coverage becomes one of the most important challenge of WSNs. The search for better positions to assign to the sensors in order to control each point of an area of interest and the collection of data from sensors are major concerns in WSNs. This work addresses these problems by providing a hybrid approach that ensures sensors deployment on a grid for targets coverage while taking into account connectivity. The proposed sequential hybrid approach is based on three algorithms. The first places the sensors so as to all targets are covered. The second removes redundancies from the placement algorithm to reduce the number of sensors deployed. The third one, based on the genetic algorithm, aims to generate a connected graph which provide a minimal path that links deployed sensors and sink. Simulations and a comparative study were carried out to prove the relevance of the proposed method.

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  1. LI-PaRAD Lab, Université Paris Saclay, University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, 45 Avenue des États-Unis, 78035, Versailles Cedex, France

    Ado Adamou Abba Ari & Abdelhak Gueroui

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    Arouna Ndam Njoya & Joseph Yves Effa

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Njoya, A.N., Ari, A.A.A., Nana Awa, M. et al. Hybrid Wireless Sensors Deployment Scheme with Connectivity and Coverage Maintaining in Wireless Sensor Networks. Wireless Pers Commun 112, 1893–1917 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-020-07132-5

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