References

Akyildiz, I.F., W. Su, Y. Sankarasubramaniam and E. Cayirci, 2002. A Survey on Sensor Networks. Commun. Mag. IEEE., 40: 102-114.
CrossRef  |  Direct Link  |  

Boukerche, A., X. Fei and R.B. Araujo, 2007. An optimal coverage-preserving scheme for wireless sensor networks based on local information exchange. Comput. Commun., 30: 2708-2720.
CrossRef  |  Direct Link  |  

Chamam, A. and S. Pierre, 2009. On the planning of wireless sensor networks: Energy-efficient clustering under the joint routing and coverage constraint. IEEE Trans. Mobile Comput., 8: 1077-1086.
CrossRef  |  

Chartrand, G. and P. Zhang, 2006. Introduction to Graph Theory. McGraw-Hill, New York, USA., ISBN: 978-0-07-061608-0, Pages: 447.

Dorigo, M. and T. Stutzle, 2004. Ant Colony Optimization. MIT Press, New York, ISBN-10: 0-262-04219-3, Pages: 305.

Ghosh, A. and S.K. Das, 2008. Coverage and connectivity issues in wireless sensor networks: A survey. Pervasive Mobile Comput., 4: 303-334.
CrossRef  |  Direct Link  |  

Ilyas, M. and I. Mahgoub, 2006. Handbook of Sensor Networks: Compact Wireless and Wired Sensing Systems. CRC Press, Boca Raton, London, New York, Washington.

Jia, J., J. Chen, G. Chang and J. Li, 2010. Find the maximum k-disjoint coverage sets in WSN using genetic algorithm. Int. J. Modell. Ident. Control, 9: 43-52.
Direct Link  |  

Ke, W.C., B.H. Liu and M.J. Tsai, 2007. Constructing a wireless sensor network to fully cover critical grids by deploying minimum sensors on grid points is NP-complete. IEEE. Trans. Comput., 56: 710-715.
Direct Link  |  

Li, J.H. and M. Yu, 2007. Sensor coverage in wireless ad hoc sensor networks. Int. J. Sens. Networks, 2: 218-229.
Direct Link  |  

Lin, Y., J. Zhang, H.S.H. Chung, W.H. Ip, Y. Li and Y.H. Shi, 2012. An ant colony optimization approach for maximizing the lifetime of heterogeneous wireless sensor networks. IEEE Trans. Syst. Man Cybern. Part C: Appl. Rev., 42: 408-420.
CrossRef  |  

Rajan, S., B. Sinthuja and S.U. Maheswari, 2013. An optimization algorithm for creating minimum size wireless sensor networks. Int. J. Comput. Appl., 65: 29-35.
Direct Link  |  

Ray, P. and P.K. Varshney, 2009. Estimation of spatially distributed processes in wireless sensor networks with random packet loss. IEEE. Trans. Wirel. Commun., 8: 3162-3171.
CrossRef  |  Direct Link  |