The k-Barrier Coverage is known as the problem of detecting the intruders by at least k sensors when the intruders moving along the crossing paths from one boundary to another. This paper proposes a barrier coverage mechanism for Wireless Mobile Sensor Networks (WMSNs). At the network initialization phase, all mobile sensors move in a distributed manner for constructing the k-Barrier Coverage. The paper aims at prolonging the barrier lifetime while achieving kbarrier coverage. Experimental study reveals that our proposed k-barrier coverage approach outperforms existing related schemes in terms of the energy consumption of mobile sensors participating in the k-barrier defense curve.
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