scholarly journals Time-selective data fusion for in-network processing in ad hoc wireless sensor networks

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (11) ◽  
pp. 155014771881130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaanus Kaugerand ◽  
Johannes Ehala ◽  
Leo Mõtus ◽  
Jürgo-Sören Preden
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Data Fusion ◽  
Data Streams ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Sensor Data ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Temporal Consistency ◽  
Variable Delays

This article introduces a time-selective strategy for enhancing temporal consistency of input data for multi-sensor data fusion for in-network data processing in ad hoc wireless sensor networks. Detecting and handling complex time-variable (real-time) situations require methodical consideration of temporal aspects, especially in ad hoc wireless sensor network with distributed asynchronous and autonomous nodes. For example, assigning processing intervals of network nodes, defining validity and simultaneity requirements for data items, determining the size of memory required for buffering the data streams produced by ad hoc nodes and other relevant aspects. The data streams produced periodically and sometimes intermittently by sensor nodes arrive to the fusion nodes with variable delays, which results in sporadic temporal order of inputs. Using data from individual nodes in the order of arrival (i.e. freshest data first) does not, in all cases, yield the optimal results in terms of data temporal consistency and fusion accuracy. We propose time-selective data fusion strategy, which combines temporal alignment, temporal constraints and a method for computing delay of sensor readings, to allow fusion node to select the temporally compatible data from received streams. A real-world experiment (moving vehicles in urban environment) for validation of the strategy demonstrates significant improvement of the accuracy of fusion results.

scholarly journals Calculating the Number of Cluster Heads Based on the Rate-Distortion Function in Wireless Sensor Networks

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Mingxin Yang ◽  
Jingsha He ◽  
Yuqiang Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Data Fusion ◽  
Rate Distortion ◽  
Distortion Function ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Wireless Sensor Nodes ◽  
Cluster Heads

Due to limited resources in wireless sensor nodes, energy efficiency is considered as one of the primary constraints in the design of the topology of wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Since data that are collected by wireless sensor nodes exhibit the characteristics of temporal association, data fusion has also become a very important means of reducing network traffic as well as eliminating data redundancy as far as data transmission is concerned. Another reason for data fusion is that, in many applications, only some of the data that are collected can meet the requirements of the sink node. In this paper, we propose a method to calculate the number of cluster heads or data aggregators during data fusion based on the rate-distortion function. In our discussion, we will first establish an energy consumption model and then describe a method for calculating the number of cluster heads from the point of view of reducing energy consumption. We will also show through theoretical analysis and experimentation that the network topology design based on the rate-distortion function is indeed more energy-efficient.

scholarly journals Anomaly Detection in Medical Wireless Sensor Networks using SVM and Linear Regression Models

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Osman Salem ◽  
Alexey Guerassimov ◽  
Ahmed Mehaoua ◽  
Anthony Marcus ◽  
Borko Furht
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Anomaly Detection ◽  
Patient Data ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Sensor Data ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Smart Devices ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Processing Unit

This paper details the architecture and describes the preliminary experimentation with the proposed framework for anomaly detection in medical wireless body area networks for ubiquitous patient and healthcare monitoring. The architecture integrates novel data mining and machine learning algorithms with modern sensor fusion techniques. Knowing wireless sensor networks are prone to failures resulting from their limitations (i.e. limited energy resources and computational power), using this framework, the authors can distinguish between irregular variations in the physiological parameters of the monitored patient and faulty sensor data, to ensure reliable operations and real time global monitoring from smart devices. Sensor nodes are used to measure characteristics of the patient and the sensed data is stored on the local processing unit. Authorized users may access this patient data remotely as long as they maintain connectivity with their application enabled smart device. Anomalous or faulty measurement data resulting from damaged sensor nodes or caused by malicious external parties may lead to misdiagnosis or even death for patients. The authors' application uses a Support Vector Machine to classify abnormal instances in the incoming sensor data. If found, the authors apply a periodically rebuilt, regressive prediction model to the abnormal instance and determine if the patient is entering a critical state or if a sensor is reporting faulty readings. Using real patient data in our experiments, the results validate the robustness of our proposed framework. The authors further discuss the experimental analysis with the proposed approach which shows that it is quickly able to identify sensor anomalies and compared with several other algorithms, it maintains a higher true positive and lower false negative rate.

Applications of Wireless Sensor Networks

2010 ◽  
pp. 1076-1090 ◽  
Author(s):  
Corinna Schmitt ◽  
Georg Carle
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Sensor Data ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Radio Communication ◽  
Power Resources ◽  
Limited Power

Today the researchers want to collect as much data as possible from different locations for monitoring reasons. In this context large-scale wireless sensor networks are becoming an active topic of research (Kahn1999). Because of the different locations and environments in which these sensor networks can be used, specific requirements for the hardware apply. The hardware of the sensor nodes must be robust, provide sufficient storage and communication capabilities, and get along with limited power resources. Sensor nodes such as the Berkeley-Mote Family (Polastre2006, Schmitt2006) are capable of meeting these requirements. These sensor nodes are small and light devices with radio communication and the capability for collecting sensor data. In this chapter the authors review the key elements for sensor networks and give an overview on possible applications in the field of monitoring.

Sensor Data Geographic Forwarding in Two-Dimensional and Three-Dimensional Spaces

2017 ◽  
pp. 317-352
Author(s):  
Habib M. Ammari ◽  
Amer Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Geographic Routing ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Sensor Data ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Geographic Forwarding ◽  
Limited Power

A wireless sensor network is a collection of sensor nodes that have the ability to sense phenomena in a given environment and collect data, perform computation on the gathered data, and transmit (or forward) it to their destination. Unfortunately, these sensor nodes have limited power, computational, and storage capabilities. These factors have an influence on the design of wireless sensor networks and make it more challenging. In order to overcome these limitations, various power management techniques and energy-efficient protocols have been designed. Among such techniques and protocols, geographic routing is one of the most efficient ways to solve some of the design issues. Geographic routing in wireless sensor networks uses location information of the sensor nodes to define a path from source to destination without having to build a network topology. In this paper, we present a survey of the existing geographic routing techniques both in two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) spaces. Furthermore, we will study the advantages of each routing technique and provide a discussion based on their practical possibility of deployment.

scholarly journals Pseudo-Random Encryption for Security Data Transmission in Wireless Sensor Networks

Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (11) ◽  
pp. 2452 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liang Liu ◽  
Wen Chen ◽  
Tao Li ◽  
Yuling Liu
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Data Fusion ◽  
Data Transmission ◽  
Multiple Scales ◽  
Sensor Data ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Fusion Center ◽  
Inverse Mapping ◽  
The Matrix

The security of wireless sensor networks (WSN) has become a great challenge due to the transmission of sensor data through an open and wireless network with limited resources. In the paper, we discussed a lightweight security scheme to protect the confidentiality of data transmission between sensors and an ally fusion center (AFC) over insecure links. For the typical security problem of WSN’s binary hypothesis testing of a target’s state, sensors were divided into flipping and non-flipping groups according to the outputs of a pseudo-random function which was held by sensors and the AFC. Then in order to prevent an enemy fusion center (EFC) from eavesdropping, the binary outputs from the flipping group were intentionally flipped to hinder the EFC’s data fusion. Accordingly, the AFC performed inverse flipping to recover the flipped data before data fusion. We extended the scheme to a more common scenario with multiple scales of sensor quantification and candidate states. The underlying idea was that the sensor measurements were randomly mapped to other quantification scales using a mapping matrix, which ensured that as long as the EFC was not aware of the matrix, it could not distract any useful information from the captured data, while the AFC could appropriately perform data fusion based on the inverse mapping of the sensor outputs.

scholarly journals Anomaly Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks: A Proposed Framework

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (10) ◽  
pp. 150
Author(s):  
Dina M. Ibrahim ◽  
Nada M. Alruhaily
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Intrusion Detection ◽  
Detection System ◽  
Denial Of Service ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Base Stations ◽  
Sensor Data ◽  
Wireless Sensor

With the rise of IOT devices and the systems connected to the internet, there was, accordingly, an ever-increasing number of network attacks (e.g. in DOS, DDOS attacks). A very significant research problem related to identifying Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) attacks and the analysis of the sensor data is the detection of the relevant anomalies. In this paper, we propose a framework for intrusion detection system in WSN. The first two levels are located inside the WSN, one of them is between sensor nodes and the second is between the cluster heads. While the third level located on the cloud, and represented by the base stations. In the first level, which we called light mode, we simulated an intrusion traffic by generating data packets based on TCPDUMP data, which contain intrusion packets, our work, is done by using WSN technology. We used OPNET simulation for generating the traffic because it allows us to collect intrusion detection data in order to measure the network performance and efficiency of the simulated network scenarios. Finally, we report the experimental results by mimicking a Denial-of-Service (DOS) attack. <em> </em>

scholarly journals Anomaly Detection in Medical Wireless Sensor Networks using SVM and Linear Regression Models

2016 ◽  
pp. 466-486 ◽  
Author(s):  
Osman Salem ◽  
Alexey Guerassimov ◽  
Ahmed Mehaoua ◽  
Anthony Marcus ◽  
Borko Furht
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Anomaly Detection ◽  
False Negative ◽  
Patient Data ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Sensor Data ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Smart Device

This paper details the architecture and describes the preliminary experimentation with the proposed framework for anomaly detection in medical wireless body area networks for ubiquitous patient and healthcare monitoring. The architecture integrates novel data mining and machine learning algorithms with modern sensor fusion techniques. Knowing wireless sensor networks are prone to failures resulting from their limitations (i.e. limited energy resources and computational power), using this framework, the authors can distinguish between irregular variations in the physiological parameters of the monitored patient and faulty sensor data, to ensure reliable operations and real time global monitoring from smart devices. Sensor nodes are used to measure characteristics of the patient and the sensed data is stored on the local processing unit. Authorized users may access this patient data remotely as long as they maintain connectivity with their application enabled smart device. Anomalous or faulty measurement data resulting from damaged sensor nodes or caused by malicious external parties may lead to misdiagnosis or even death for patients. The authors' application uses a Support Vector Machine to classify abnormal instances in the incoming sensor data. If found, the authors apply a periodically rebuilt, regressive prediction model to the abnormal instance and determine if the patient is entering a critical state or if a sensor is reporting faulty readings. Using real patient data in our experiments, the results validate the robustness of our proposed framework. The authors further discuss the experimental analysis with the proposed approach which shows that it is quickly able to identify sensor anomalies and compared with several other algorithms, it maintains a higher true positive and lower false negative rate.

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