Novel Computationally-Efficient Multiple Access-Point/Router Deployment Approach for Full Line-of-Sight Coverage over Arbitrary Indoor Polygonal/Prismatic Fields-of-Interest
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2024
Abstract
Nowadays, wireless local-area networks (WLANs) are widely deployed in residential and commercial areas. How to ensure full coverage is always an important challenge during the deployment of access-points and routers. In this study, we investigate the full line-of-sight (LoS) coverage problem. We will focus on how to achieve the full LoS coverage using a minimal number of access-points/routers in an arbitrary polygonal/prismatic field-of-interest, which may be simply-or multiply-connected subject to a certain restricted link-range. We propose a new visibility-polygon based approach for doing so. The performance of our proposed new approach is then evaluated in terms of the coverage efficiency, the total number of access-points/routers, and the peak link-distance ratio for achieving the full LoS coverage. Meanwhile, we also compare our proposed new approach with the existing schemes. Compared to the existing schemes, our proposed novel visibility-polygon based approach can achieve the full LoS coverage by requiring the same number of access-points/routers but much less computation time.
Publication Source (Journal or Book title)
IEEE Internet of Things Journal
Recommended Citation
Tsai, H., Gadiraju, V., Wu, H., & Huang, S. (2024). Novel Computationally-Efficient Multiple Access-Point/Router Deployment Approach for Full Line-of-Sight Coverage over Arbitrary Indoor Polygonal/Prismatic Fields-of-Interest. IEEE Internet of Things Journal https://doi.org/10.1109/JIOT.2024.3494692
