Experimental Analysis of Coordination Strategies to Support Wireless Sensor Networks Composed by Static Ground Sensors and UAV-Carried Sensors

Author

De Freitas, Edison Pignaton ; Heimfarth, Tales ; Pereira, Carlos Eduardo ; Ferreira, Armando Morado ; Wagner, Flávio Rech ; Larsson, Tony

Author_Institution

Sch. of Inf. Sci., Comput. & Electr. Eng., Halmstad Univ., Halmstad, Sweden

fYear

2010

fDate

6-9 Sept. 2010

Firstpage

152

Lastpage

161

Abstract

This paper presents a comparison among different strategies to coordinate the use of heterogeneous wireless sensors aimed for area surveillance. The heterogeneity among the sensor nodes is related to their sensing and mobility capabilities. The goal of the strategies is to provide coordination among the different nodes, in order to make the wireless sensor network perform its missions with higher efficiency. Strategies combine advantages of bio-inspired and utility-based approaches to coordination. Simulations of scenarios with different characteristics were performed and the results are compared and analyzed.

Keywords

aircraft; remotely operated vehicles; surveillance; wireless sensor networks; UAV carried sensors; area surveillance; bioinspired based coordination; coordination strategy; heterogeneous wireless sensor; mobility capability; sensing capability; static ground sensor; utility based coordination; wireless sensor network; Mobile communication; Sensor systems; Surveillance; Target tracking; Unmanned aerial vehicles; Wireless sensor networks; coordination strategies; heterogeneous wireless sensor networks; unmanned aerial vehicle–carried sensors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (ISPA), 2010 International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Taipei

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8095-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-4190-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISPA.2010.72

Filename

5634419