ABSTRACT

“You only see what you know.” J.W. von Goethe

7.1 Introduction

7.2 State of the Art

7.2.1 Node-Centric Delay-Critical Monitoring Techniques

7.2.2 Region-Centric Delay-Critical Monitoring Techniques.

7.2.3 Mobility-Assisted Delay-Tolerant Monitoring Techniques

7.2.4 Our Contributions Compared to Existing Approaches

7.3 System Model

7.4 gMAP: Mobility-Assisted Monitoring Using Global Maps

7.4.1 Overview of Approach

7.4.2 Scenario Classification

7.4.3 Path Planning of ANs

7.4.3.1 Structured mWSN Scenarios

7.4.3.2 Semi-Structured mWSN Scenarios

7.4.3.3 The Integrated Path Planning Algorithm

7.4.4 Data Collection

7.4.5 eMap Construction

190 7.5 Evaluation

7.5.1 Path Planning Performance

7.5.2 Data Collection and Map Construction Performance

7.5.2.1 Simulation Settings

7.5.2.2 Evaluation Metrics

7.5.2.3 Data Collection Performance.

7.5.2.4 Regioning Performance

7.5.3 Comparison to Related Work

7.6 Conclusions

7.7 Open Issues