Randomly Deployed Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless sensor networks have a range of applications, including military uses and in environmental monitoring. When an area of interest is inaccessible by conventional means, such a network can be deployed in ways resulting in a random distribution of the sensors. Randomly Deployed Wireless Sensor Networks offers a probabilistic method to model and analyze these networks. The book considers the network design, coverage, target detection, localization and tracking of sensors in randomly deployed wireless networks, and proposes a stochastic model. It quantifies the relationship between parameters of the network and its performance, and puts forward a communication protocol. The title provides analyses and formulas, giving engineering insight into randomly deployed wireless sensor networks. Five chapters consider the analysis of coverage performance; working modes and scheduling mechanisms; the relationship between sensor behavior and network performance properties; probabilistic forwarding routing protocols; localization methods for multiple targets and target number estimation; and experiments on target localization and tracking with a Mica sensor system.

Details a probabilistic method to model and analyze randomly deployed wireless sensor networksGives working modes and scheduling mechanisms for sensor nodes, allowing high-probability of target detectionConsiders the relationship between sensor behaviour and network performance and lifetimeOffers probabilistic forwarding routing protocols for randomly deployed wireless sensor networksDescribes a method for localizing multiple targets and estimating their number

1. Introduction
2. Coverage in wireless sensor networks
3. Coverage performance in randomly distributed WSNs
4. Percentage Coverage deployment
5. Dynamic target detection
6. Stochastic model of wireless sensor networks
7. Probabilistic Forwarding (ProFor) routing protocol
8. Extension for ProFor routing protocol
9. Energy-based Multiple targets localization
10. Experiment study: Target localization