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In this paper, the problem of target localization in the presence of outlying sensors is tackled. This problem is important in practice because in many real-world applications the sensors might report irrelevant data unintentionally or…
A belt region is said to be k-barrier covered by a set of sensors if all paths crossing the width of the belt region intersect the sensing regions of at least k sensors. Barrier coverage can be achieved from a random initial deployment of…