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Coverage Problems in Sensor Networks

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Wireless sensor networks have many applications in national security, environmental monitoring, surveillance, military, and health care. Coverage problems have become an important research topic in wireless sensor networks in recent years. They are addressing the following fundamental question: how well do the sensors observe the physical space? Many coverage problems have been addressed by the research literature due to a variety of sensors and applications. They vary on the subject to be covered (area, discrete points), sensor deployment mechanism (random, deterministic), sensor mobility (stationary, mobile), event structure (simple, composite), and network properties (connectivity, energyefficiency). This chapter surveys various coverage formulations, their assumptions, and an overview of the solutions proposed.

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  1. Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, Florida Atlantic University, 33431, Boca Raton, FL, USA

    Mihaela Cardei

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  1. Department of Industrial and Systems Eng, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA

    Panos M. Pardalos

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Texas, Dallas, Richardson, Texas, USA

    Ding-Zhu Du

  3. Dept. Comp. Sci. & Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA

    Ronald L. Graham

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Cardei, M. (2013). Coverage Problems in Sensor Networks. In: Pardalos, P., Du, DZ., Graham, R. (eds) Handbook of Combinatorial Optimization. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7997-1_72

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