Error estimation in wireless sensor networks

  • Authors:
  • Alejandro C. Frery;Heitor Ramos;José Alencar-Neto;Eduardo Nakamura

  • Affiliations:
  • LCCV/IC--UFAL, Maceió, AL -- Brazil;LCCV/IC--UFAL, Maceió, AL -- Brazil;Justiça Federal de Alagoas, Mació, AL -- Brazil;Research and Technological Innovation Center (FUCAPI), Manaus, AM -Brazil

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2008 ACM symposium on Applied computing
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We present an analogy between the operation of a Wireless Sensor Network and the sampling and reconstruction of a signal. We measure the impact of three factors on the quality of the reconstructed data, namely, the granularity of the process under study, the spatial distribution of sensors, and the protocol for clustering and data aggregation. In order to quantify this influence, a Monte Carlo study is performed for estimating the error introduced by the observation process. The phenomenon being observed is described by a Gaussian random field with varying scale, the distribution of sensors is modeled by a new point process and two protocols are assessed: Leach and Skater. We show that Skater performs better than Leach, at the expense of using the sampled data on the clustering stage.