A Shape Recognition Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks Based on a Distance Field Method
ICA3PP '09 Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing
Distributed energy-efficient target tracking with binary sensor networks
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ICC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Communications
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We describe distributed tracking of a nonlinear dynamical system via networked sensors. The sensors communicate with each other by means of a multihop protocol over a communication network. We derive in-network processing algorithms to deal with arbitrary network topology and then extend these results to account for communication delays and packet losses. We show that these algorithms are optimal in the linear setting and achieve centralized performance. The proposed techniques differ from existing techniques in two important aspects: a) there is no designated leader/fusion node and each sensor attempts to optimally track the system trajectory based on its local observations and time-dependent information available from other sensors in the network; b) the message computation at each sensor is structurally identical. Consequently, the sensor network can be queried at any time and at any node to obtain optimal estimates for the state of the dynamical system. We then present two multihop protocols - one based on gossip and another token-based - for distributed implementation of the in-network processing techniques. We show several advantages of token-based schemes over gossip protocols: a) message complexity is significantly smaller for achieving the same performance; b) they are well-suited for situations where target and network data aggregation time-scales are comparable; and c) they are well-suited for random geometric graphs with nodes having small communication-connectivity radius - a scenario typical of ad-hoc wireless networks. This is because they can fuse data only from the set of nodes that can be visited in any time period.