IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Optimized energy allocation in battery powered image sensor networks
ICIP'09 Proceedings of the 16th IEEE international conference on Image processing
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
Equal energy dissipation in wireless image sensor network: A solution to energy-hole problem
Computers and Electrical Engineering
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Distributed imaging using sensor arrays is gaining popularity among various research and development communities. A common bottleneck within such an imaging sensor network is the large resulting data load. In applications for which transmission power and/or bandwidth are constrained, this can drastically decrease the sensor network lifetime. We present an algorithm that efficiently exploits inter- and intrasensor correlation for the purpose of power-constrained distributed transmission of sensor-network imagery. Gains in network lifetime up to 114% are obtained when using the suggested algorithm with lossless compression. Our results also demonstrate that when lossy compression is employed, much larger gains are achieved. For example, when a normalized root-mean-squared error of 0.78% can be tolerated in the received measurements, the network lifetime increases by a factor of 2.8, as compared to the (optimized) lossless case.