Communication Constrained Distributed Spatial Field estimation Using Mobile Sensor Networks

Data Synchronization in Distributed and Constrained Mobile Sensor Networks

Data fusion in sensor networks involves the processing of data from multiple sources. For distributed settings, the fusion operation has to be executed at individual nodes, which makes data synchronization among nodes a crucial task to ensure consistency. If the sensor nodes are mobile, the communication channel between them can sometimes be broken. When communication is re-established, the sna...

Distributed estimation in resource-constrained wireless sensor networks

Distributed communication-aware coverage control by mobile sensor networks

The purpose of this paper is to propose a distributed control scheme to maximize area coverage by a mobile robot network while ensuring reliable communication between the members of the team. The information that is generated at the sensors depends on the sensing capabilities of the sensors as well as on the frequency at which events occur in their vicinity, captured by appropriate probability ...

Joint Source-Channel Communication for Distributed Estimation in Sensor Networks

Power and bandwidth are scarce resources in dense wireless sensor networks and it is widely recognized that the operations of sensing, processing and communication must be jointly optimized for efficient use of network resources. In this paper, a distributed joint source-channel communication architecture is proposed for energy-efficient estimation of sensor field data at a distant destination ...

Parameter Estimation Over Noisy Communication Channels in Distributed Sensor Networks

With the recent development of low-cost, low-power, multi-functional sensor nodes, sensor networks have become an attractive emerging technology in a wide variety of applications including, but not limited to, military surveillance, civilian, industrial and environmental monitoring [1]–[5]. In most of these new applications sensor nodes are capable not only of sensing but also of data processin...