Stochastic Counting in Sensor Networks, or: Noise Is Good

  • Authors:
  • Y. M. Baryshnikov;E. G. Coffman;K. J. Kwak;Bill Moran

  • Affiliations:
  • Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ 07974;Electrical Engineering Dept., Columbia University, New York, NY 10027;Electrical Engineering Dept., Columbia University, New York, NY 10027;Electrical Engineering Dept., University of Melbourne, Australia

  • Venue:
  • DCOSS '08 Proceedings of the 4th IEEE international conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We propose a novel algorithm of counting indistinguishable objects by a collection of sensors. The information on multiple counting is recovered from the stochastic correlation patterns.