An efficient method for cleaning dirty-events over uncertain data in WSNs

  • Authors:
  • Mo Chen;Ge Yu;Yu Gu;Zi-Xi Jia;Yan-Qiu Wang

  • Affiliations:
  • Software College, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China and College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China;College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China;College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China;College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China;College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computer Science and Technology - Special issue on Natural Language Processing
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Event detection in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) has attracted much attention due to its importance in many applications. The erroneous abnormal data generated during event detection are prone to lead to false detection results. Therefore, in order to improve the reliability of event detection, we propose a dirty-event cleaning method based on spatio-temporal correlations among sensor data. Unlike traditional fault-tolerant approaches, our method takes into account the inherent uncertainty of sensor measurements and focuses on the type of directional events. A probability-based mapping scheme is introduced, which maps uncertain sensor data into binary data. Moreover, we give formulated definitions of transient dirty-event (TDE) and permanent dirty-event (PDE), which are cleaned by a novel fuzzy method and a collaborative cleaning scheme, respectively. Extensive experimental results show the effectiveness of our dirty-event cleaning method.