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Algorithms for energy efficient mobile object tracking in wireless sensor networks

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Wireless sensor networks have found more and more applications in a variety of pervasive computing environments, in their functions as data acquisition in pervasive applications. However, how to get better performance to support data acquisition of pervasive applications over WSNs remains to be a nontrivial and challenging task. The network lifetime and application requirement are two fundamental, yet conflicting, design objectives in wireless sensor networks for tracking mobile objects. The application requirement is often correlated to the delay time within which the application can send its sensing data back to the users in tracking networks. In this paper we study the network lifetime maximization problem and the delay time minimization problem together. To make both problems tractable, we have the assumption that each sensor node keeps working since it turns on. And we formulate the network lifetime maximization problem as maximizing the number of sensor nodes who don’t turn on, and the delay time minimization problem as minimizing the routing path length, after achieving the required tracking tasks. Since we prove the problems are NP-complete and APX-complete, we propose three heuristic algorithms to solve them. And we present several experiments to show the advantages and disadvantages referring to the network lifetime and the delay time among these three algorithms on three models, random graphs, grids and hypercubes. Furthermore, we implement the distributed version of these algorithms.

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    Li Liu, Bin Hu & Lian Li

  2. Department of Computing, Birmingham City University, Birmingham, UK

    Bin Hu

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Liu, L., Hu, B. & Li, L. Algorithms for energy efficient mobile object tracking in wireless sensor networks. Cluster Comput 13, 181–197 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10586-009-0108-9

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