Virtual force based individual particle optimization for coverage in wireless sensor networks

This paper proposes a novel deployment algorithm for wireless sensor networks namely VFIPO based on individual particle optimization (IPO) incorporated with virtual force (VF) algorithm, which overcomes the shortcomings of applying the VF algorithm. Simulation results verify that mobile nodes deployment with VFIPO outperforms the previous deployment algorithms such as VF, PSO, VFPSO and IPO based approaches with respect to effective coverage area and computation time.