A Self-Deployment Algorithm for Maintaining Maximum Coverage and Connectivity in Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks Based on an Ant Colony Optimization

The self-deployment of nodes with non-uniform coverage in underwater acoustic sensor networks (UASNs) is challenging because it is difficult to access the three-dimensional underwater environment. The problem is further complicated if network connectivity needs to be considered. In order to solve the optimization problem of sensor network node deployment, we propose a maximum coverage and connectivity self-deployment algorithm that is based on...