Efficient Sensing Topology Management for Spatial Monitoring with Sensor Networks

  • Authors:
  • Periklis Liaskovitis;Curt Schurgers

  • Affiliations:
  • ECE Department, University of California, San Diego, USA;ECE Department, University of California, San Diego, USA

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Signal Processing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We focus on exploiting redundancy for sensor networks in the context of spatial interpolation. The network acts as a distributed sampling system, where sensors periodically sample a physical phenomenon of interest, e.g. temperature. Samples are then used to construct a continuous spatial estimate of the phenomenon over time through interpolation. In this regime, the notion of sensing range typically utilized to characterize redundancy in event detection applications is meaningless and sensor selection schemes based on it become unsuitable. Instead, this paper presents pragmatic approaches for exploiting redundancy in such applications. Their underlying characteristic is that no a-priori assumptions need to be made on the statistical properties of the physical phenomenon. These are instead learned by the network after deployment. Our approaches are evaluated through real as well as synthetic sensor network data showing that significant reductions in the number of active sensors are indeed possible.