This book will serve as a reference, presenting state-of-the-art
research on theoretical aspects of optimal sensor coverage problems.
Readers will find it a useful tool for furthering developments on theory
and applications of optimal coverage; much of the content can serve as
material for advanced topics courses at the graduate level. The book is
well versed with the hottest research topics such as Lifetime of
Coverage, Weighted Sensor Cover, k-Coverage, Heterogeneous Sensors,
Barrier, Sweep and Partial Coverage, Mobile Sensors, Camera Sensors and
Energy-Harvesting Sensors, and more. Topics are introduced in a natural
order from simple covers to connected covers, to the lifetime problem.
Later, the book begins revisiting earlier problems ranging from the
introduction of weights to coverage by k sensors and partial coverage,
and from sensor heterogeneity to novel problems such as the barrier
coverage problem. The book ends with coverage of mobile sensors, camera
sensors, energy-harvesting sensors, underwater sensors, and
crowdsensing.