An algorithm based on market competition for wireless sensor network connectivity and coverage

This paper provides a new distributed algorithm for the wireless sensor network connectivity and coverage issues by means of analyzing the market competition of human society. In this algorithm, the sensor nodes in the network were seen as enterprises in economic activities, the interested areas were taken as resources, network configurations were seen as market competitions. Take advantage of this algorithm, the amount of computation, mobile distance and information complexity of every node can be reduced; the efficiency boost; and the project of energy saving is indirect achieved. Experimental results show that the method is effective.