Brain Storm Optimization based directional sensors deployment for coverage of targets
S. Balaji, S. Rajkumar, Shekhar Sharma, Aditi Yadav · 2022 Third International Conference on Intelligent Computing Instrumentation and Control Technologies (ICICICT) · 2022
Sensors are used in various areas and have numerous applications including military surveillance, weather monitoring, maritime communication etc. Most of the applications need the multimedia sensors with directional sensing range of the sensors to perform advance task. Additionally, there are some constraints on the targets namely Q-constraints, such that each target must be covered by different number of sensors. The crucial issue in this case is deployment of minimum number of multimedia sensors to satisfy the Q-constraints. The optimization of the placement of the sensors can result in reduced number of sensors needed for the coverage of the specified targets. In this paper, the placement of the sensors is optimized using the Brain Storm Optimization Algorithm (BSO) which is inspired by the human brainstorming process. BSO algorithm efficiently designed for the considered problem to identify the optimal position of the sensors. The performance of the proposed algorithm is verified by simulation results, which performs better than the random deployment of the sensors.