title: A Social Potential Fields Approach for Self-Deployment and Self-Healing in Hierarchical Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks.
abstract: Autonomous mobile nodes in mobile wireless sensor networks (MWSN) allow self-deployment and self-healing. In both cases, the goals are: (i) to achieve adequate coverage; and (ii) to extend network life. In dynamic environments, nodes may use reactive algorithms so that each node locally decides when and where to move. This paper presents a behavior-based deployment and self-healing algorithm based on the social potential fields algorithm. In the proposed algorithm, nodes are attached to low cost robots to autonomously navigate in the coverage area. The proposed algorithm has been tested in environments with and without obstacles. Our study also analyzes the differences between non-hierarchical and hierarchical routing configurations in terms of network life and coverage.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Tecnologia Electronica, ETSI Telecomunicacion, Campus de Teatinos s/n, University of Malaga, Malaga 29010, Spain. gonzalez@uma.es.
authors.forename: Eva
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: González-Parada
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Tecnologia Electronica, ETSI Telecomunicacion, Campus de Teatinos s/n, University of Malaga, Malaga 29010, Spain. jcgarcia@uma.es.
authors.forename: Jose
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Cano-García
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Tecnologia Electronica, ETSI Telecomunicacion, Campus de Teatinos s/n, University of Malaga, Malaga 29010, Spain. fjaguilera87@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Francisco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Aguilera
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Tecnologia Electronica, ETSI Telecomunicacion, Campus de Teatinos s/n, University of Malaga, Malaga 29010, Spain. fsandoval@uma.es.
authors.forename: Francisco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Sandoval
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Tecnologia Electronica, ETSI Telecomunicacion, Campus de Teatinos s/n, University of Malaga, Malaga 29010, Spain. acurdiales@uma.es.
authors.forename: Cristina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Urdiales
keywords: SPF; WSN; autonomous deployment; geographic routing; hierarchical routing; mobile sensor networks; robots; self-healing