A Cellular Automata Model for Object Monitoring in Mobile Wireless Sensor Network in Hexagonal Grid

Abstract

A Cellular Automata Model for Object Monitoring in Mobile Wireless Sensor Network in Hexagonal Grid By Shahidullah Kaiser (134420), Md. Rahat Hussein Khan (134426) Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks (MWSN) is an ad-hoc network that comprises of a large number of sensors. The sensors usually have limited sensing and communication capabilities. We present a CA model that efficiently monitor a moving object in distributed mobile wireless sensor network. CA is a biologically inspired discrete model. Although there are works that have used CA for developing Object Monitoring in Distributed Mobile Wireless Sensor Network, they mostly used square grids which is not a good representation of the actual MWSN model. We focus on simulating the mobile wireless sensor networks for monitoring a moving object considering energyefficiency. In a general case, a number of objects need to be monitored by the sensors and the objects can be static or mobile. Monitoring mobile objects is considerably harder than monitoring static objects. Mobile sensor networks can be useful in monitoring animal behavior. In this case, animals can move randomly within a network and the mobile sensors can also move to monitor their behavior and other aspects.