@inproceedings{70a02d22c5fb41938ab10d2da83751f9,
title = "Territorial Marking for Improved Area Coverage in Anti-Flocking-Controlled Mobile Sensor Networks",
abstract = "Recently proposed distributed anti-flocking algorithms have enabled mobile sensor networks (MSNs) to deliver impressive area coverage performances. However, due to lack of information about each other's traverse history, mobile sensor nodes tend to travel extra distances to achieve 100% cumulative area coverage. Inspired by the territorial marking behaviour of solitary animals, this paper proposes a new information map and map updating methods for anti-flocking controlled MSNs. The proposed territorial marking anti-flocking control enables MSNs to achieve improved area coverage performances by encouraging nodes to remain in a part of the terrain. According to the results provided in this paper, the proposed algorithm can be more energy efficient for MSNs in continues monitoring applications.",
keywords = "anti-flocking, area coverage, distributed control, Mobile sensor networks, territorial marking",
author = "Nuwan Ganganath and Wanmai Yuan and Cheng, {Chi Tsun} and Tyrone Fernando and Iu, {Herbert H.C.}",
note = "Funding Information: ACKNOWLEDGMENT This work is supported by the Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Projects RUWM and G-YBXK). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018 IEEE.; 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS 2018 ; Conference date: 27-05-2018 Through 30-05-2018",
year = "2018",
month = apr,
day = "26",
doi = "10.1109/ISCAS.2018.8351500",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings - IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
booktitle = "2018 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS 2018 - Proceedings",
}