SZ-GESA

Abstract

In this article, advanced tools are provided to steppe specialists to guide them in choosing the integrated development policies for steppe and pastoral zones. To this end, the use of adapted mobile wireless sensor networks (WSN) is proposed. Thus, a distributed and localized protocol dealing with the self-deployment problem resulting from mobile sensor random deployment is presented, on a steppe rangeland. This scheme entirely based on a geometric approach dealing with geodesy and steppe zones characteristics, allows mobile sensors moving to optimal positions on these study rangelands. The Geodesic Efficient Self-Deployment Algorithm in Steppe Zones (sz-GESA), so called, in its approach to solve the self-deployment problem for a given geographical rangelands type, showed during simulations a great robustness for the WSN adapted to this kind of zones by allowing optimization of the coverage and to idealize the connectivity. Obtained results are very encouraging and let us think for more research enhancing this developed system more efficiently.