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...so fit model parameters using real UAV flight data for model validation. Moreover, we will investigate area coverage as the full coverage and the time needed are also important characteristics of ANs =-=[28]-=-, [34]. Finally, we will have further investigation with more advanced connectivity properties, such as path duration and link duration, and we will fully investigate the impact of randomness on the p...

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...information sharing. Such mixed WSNs are expected to find potential applications in environmental monitoring (e.g. water bodies monitoring) as well as search and surveillance operations. Search and surveillance is a problem that has attracted significant attention over the past years, however, there is significant focus on how to allocate search effort across the environment instead of finding the best search path to follow [1], [2]. Recently, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have been proposed to address the area monitoring or surveillance problem with either stationary nodes [3], [4], mobile [5], [6], [7], [8], [9] or both types of nodes [10], [11], [12], [13]. Mixed/Mobile WSNs is a new area of research and methods proposed usually considered random mobility models [5], [11], [14] or they do not even consider the actual path that mobile nodes should follow [6],[15] (e.g. solve the redeployment problem). Moreover, other methods proposed T. Lambrou and C. Panayiotou are with the KIOS Research Center for Intelligent Systems and Networks and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus. {faniseng,christosp}@ucy.ac.cy for finding the worst-...

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...work [23], which meant that only two types ofsnode would be contained. These were two-stage heterogeneous sensor networks with nodes that havesstrong or weak abilities [24], or were movable or static =-=[4,23,25]-=-, or audio or video [26]. For thesthree-stage heterogeneous network, Wang [27] set three types of heterogeneous nodes based on the threesdimensions of the directional sensor to the optimal deployment....

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...descriptors have been used to analyze and compare various mobility models for dynamic networks, to determine advantages and disadvantages of each, as well as optimal strategies for intruder detection =-=[19]-=-. It is often desirable to avoid assuming the availability of geometric information, such as global coordinates for the nodes, or distances between them. Instead, ‘coordinate-free’ methods compute net...

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...yment density, e.g., coverage holes result due to temporary node failure. Traditionally, this problem is tackled using mobile robots that move through the uncovered points of the RoI, e.g., [1], [2], =-=[3]-=-, [4]. However, such mobile solutions are not practical in many scenarios and suffer from many constraints. Firstly, the mobile node may not be able to move through the area, e.g., difficulty of the t...

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...age of mobile sensor networks B. Liu (Univ. of Massachusetts at Lowell, USA), O. Dousse (Nokia Research Center, Switzerland), P. Nain, and D. Towsley (Univ. of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA) study in =-=[30]-=- the dynamic aspects of the coverage 8 Activity Report INRIA 2013 of a mobile sensor network resulting from continuous movement of sensors. As sensors move around, initially uncovered locations may be...