Sensor-mission assignment in constrained environments

Johnson, Matthew P., Rowaihy, Hosam, Pizzocaro, Diego ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1976-8805, Bar-Noy, Amotz, Chalmers, Stuart, La Porta, Thomas F. and Preece, Alun David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0349-9057 2010. Sensor-mission assignment in constrained environments. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems 21 (11) , pp. 1692-1705. 10.1109/TPDS.2010.36

Full text not available from this repository.

Abstract

When a sensor network is deployed in the field it is typically required to support multiple simultaneous missions, which may start and finish at different times. Schemes that match sensor resources to mission demands thus become necessary. In this paper, we consider new sensor-assignment problems motivated by frugality, i.e., the conservation of resources, for both static and dynamic settings. In the most general setting, the problems we study are NP-hard even to approximate, and so we focus on heuristic algorithms that perform well in practice. In the static setting, we propose a greedy centralized solution and a more sophisticated solution that uses the Generalized Assignment Problem model and can be implemented in a distributed fashion. In what we call the dynamic setting, missions arrive over time and have different durations. For this setting, we give heuristic algorithms in which available sensors propose to nearby missions as they arrive. We find that the overall performance can be significantly improved if available sensors sometimes refuse to offer utility to missions they could help, making this decision based on the value of the mission, the sensor's remaining energy, and (if known) the remaining target lifetime of the network. Finally, we evaluate our solutions through simulations.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Computer Science & Informatics
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Wireless sensor networks; resource allocation; mission assignment.
Publisher:	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
ISSN:	1045-9219
Last Modified:	11 Jun 2023 01:18
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/6883

Citation Data

Cited 22 times in Scopus. View in Scopus. Powered By Scopus® Data

Actions (repository staff only)

Edit Item