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Vol: 53(67) No: 3 / September 2008

Unidirectional and Omni-Directional Sensing Coverage Management in Wireless Sensor Networks
Codruta Istin
Department of Computers, “Politehnica” University of Timisoara, Faculty of Automation and Computers, 2 V. Parvan, 300223 Timisoara, Romania, e-mail: Istin.Codruta@gmail.com
Dan Pescaru
Department of Computers, “Politehnica” University of Timisoara, Faculty of Automation and Computers, 2 V. Parvan, 300223 Timisoara, Romania, e-mail: dan.pescaru@cs.upt.ro
Alex Doboli
Department of ECE, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794-2350, USA, e-mail: adoboli@ece.sunysb.edu
Horia Ciocarlie
Department of Computers, “Politehnica” University of Timisoara, Faculty of Automation and Computers, 2 V. Parvan, 300223 Timisoara, Romania, e-mail: Horia.Ciocarlie@cs.upt.ro


Keywords: wireless sensor networks, unidirectional and omni-directional sensors, video sensors, coverage, redundancy

Abstract
Video-based sensors have a large field of applications in different domains. The sensors can be planned or randomly deployed. In both cases redundancy appears and can be used to obtain a better coverage or to prolong the network’s lifetime. This paper proposes an algorithm for analyzing the redundancy for both unidirectional and omni-directional sensors in various kinds of deployment scenarios. Experimental results are presented for illustrating the efficiency of using redundancy for reliable field of view maintenance.

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