Date of Award

2013

Publisher

North Dakota State University

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Awarded

Master of Science (MS)

Program

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Department

Electrical and Computer Engineering

College

Engineering

Faculty Advisor

Green, Roger A.

Description

Nowadays there is an increasing interest in wireless sensor networks due to their usage in a diverse range of applications such as telemetry and smart grids. In such networks, a valid concern is the minimization of the total network cost. To achieve this goal, one objective is to minimize the number of base-stations (nodes) to provide coverage for the sensors. In previous works, it has been usually assumed that base-station coverage already exists over the entire area of interest and the focus is to select cluster-heads in ad-hoc networks. Other works select the base-station among candidates given pre-defined constraints for single coverage. This work proposes heuristics to define number and placement of base-stations for wireless sensor network in a dual coverage scenario. For this purpose, random sensor distributions are generated and comparisons between the proposed heuristics are provided.

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NDSU Policy 190.6.2

Rights Link

https://www.ndsu.edu/fileadmin/policy/190.pdf

Handle Identifier

https://hdl.handle.net/10365/26982

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