Applying anti-flocking model in mobile surveillance systems
Yun-Qian Miao, Alaa M. Khamis, Mohamed S. Kamel · 2010
This paper discusses the role of three mobility models namely, fully coordinated mobility, fully random mobility and emergent mobility models in improving area coverage and detection effectiveness of a set of mobile sensors in a mobile surveillance system. A novel anti-flocking algorithm that mimics solitary animal's social behavior is described. A multiagent-based system has been implemented to examine the efficiency of the different mobility model. The simulation results show that anti-flocking mobility model outperforms the fully random mobility model. This novel model provides additional features such as scalability, robustness and adaptivity comparing with fully coordinated mobility model.