BorderSense: Border patrol through advanced wireless sensor networks

  • Authors:

  • Zhi Sun;Pu Wang;Mehmet C. Vuran;Mznah A. Al-Rodhaan;Abdullah M. Al-Dhelaan;Ian F. Akyildiz

  • Affiliations:

  • Broadband Wireless Networking Laboratory, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, United States;Broadband Wireless Networking Laboratory, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, United States;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588, United States;College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia;College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia;Broadband Wireless Networking Laboratory, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, United States and College of Computer and Information S ...

  • Venue:
  • Ad Hoc Networks
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

The conventional border patrol systems suffer from intensive human involvement. Recently, unmanned border patrol systems employ high-tech devices, such as unmanned aerial vehicles, unattended ground sensors, and surveillance towers equipped with camera sensors. However, any single technique encounters inextricable problems, such as high false alarm rate and line-of-sight-constraints. There lacks a coherent system that coordinates various technologies to improve the system accuracy. In this paper, the concept of BorderSense, a hybrid wireless sensor network architecture for border patrol systems, is introduced. BorderSense utilizes the most advanced sensor network technologies, including the wireless multimedia sensor networks and the wireless underground sensor networks. The framework to deploy and operate BorderSense is developed. Based on the framework, research challenges and open research issues are discussed.