The precision and energetic cost of snapshot estimates in wireless sensor networks

Paul G. Flikkema

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3 Scopus citations

Abstract

Even for a specific application, the design space of wireless sensor networks is enormous, and traditional disciplinary boundaries are disappearing in the search for efficient integrated network architectures and protocols. There is a strong need to develop objective frameworks for the evaluation of performance and energetic cost as a function of network control at multiple levels, including the signal/data processing application, network organization, routing, MAC, and physical layers. This paper, a step in this direction, addresses the efficiency of linear estimation of a second-order random spatial field at a central server-a snapshot - in terms of the precision of the estimate and the energetic cost of computing it. We present a model that is based on the tasks of taking samples at a specific resolution and reporting them over the network to the server where the estimate is computed. It provides insight into the joint design of sampling and routing, an explicit efficiency measure for finite networks, and a performance benchmark for precision. The model, with predefined sampling locations at each resolution, implicitly requires centralized control to obtain spatially uniform sampling. We describe a decentralized reporting protocol called PROSE (Protocol for Randomized Opportunistic Sampling and Estimation) that uses localized decisions for sampling, data aggregation, and routing that are random and opportunistic. Finally, we show that the performance of PROSE compares favorably with the benchmark, and that PROSE admits simpler nonopportunistic random behavior at the cost of lower performance.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings - 11th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, ISCC 2006
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages603-608
Number of pages6
ISBN (Print)0769525881, 9780769525884
DOIs
StatePublished - 2006
Event11th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, ISCC 2006 - Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy
Duration: Jun 26 2006Jun 29 2006

Publication series

NameProceedings - IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications
ISSN (Print)1530-1346

Other

Other11th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, ISCC 2006
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityCagliari, Sardinia
Period6/26/066/29/06

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Signal Processing
  • General Mathematics
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Computer Networks and Communications

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