Ant Colony Based Node Deployment and Search in Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

Wireless sensor network have many applications such as monitoring hazardous areas. Deployment of sensor nodes in harsh and unreachable areas is done via random deployment. An alternative approach is using a swarm of robots to fulfill this task. In this paper we propose a new approach for deployment and search in a field of interest. Simulations shows our approach has better performance than single complex robot scenario and outperforms other related works.