Weight-Aware Sensor Deployment in Wireless Sensor Networks for Smart Cities

Abstract EN

During the construction of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) for smart cities, a preliminary survey of the relative criticalness within the monitored area can be performed.

It is a challenge for deterministic sensor deployment to balance the tradeoff of sensing reliability and cost.

In this paper, based on the sensing accuracy of the sensor, we establish a reliability model of the sensing area which is divided into sensing grids, and different weights are allocated to those grids.

We employ a practical evaluation criterion using seesaw mapping for determining the weights of sensing grids.

We further formulate and solve an optimization problem for maximizing the trust degree of the WSNs.

With our proposed method, the efficient deployment of sensors can be realized.

Simulation results show that our proposed deployment strategy can achieve higher trust degree with reduced sensor deployment cost and lower number of sensors at a certain miss probability threshold.