A New Realistic Approach for the Relay Node Placement Problem inn Wireless Sensor Networks by Means of Evolutionary Computation

摘要

At present, the use of the wireless sensor networks is increasing considerably, in more and more fields of application. This encourages many researchers to try to overcome the disadvantages of this type of network. This paper focuses on how to add and place relay nodes to a static wireless sensor network in order to optimize three important factors not considered jointly before in any paper found in the existing literature: energy consumption, average coverage and network reliability. To this en