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Vol: 52(66) No: 4 / December 2007 Deployments Metrics for Video-based Wireless Sensor Networks Codruta Istin Department of Computers, “Politehnica” University of Timisoara, Faculty of Automation and Computers, 2 Bd. V. Parvan, 300223 Timisoara, Romania, e-mail: codruta.istin@cs.upt.ro Dan Pescaru Department of Computers, “Politehnica” University of Timisoara, Faculty of Automation and Computers, 2 Bd. V. Parvan, 300223 Timisoara, Romania, phone: +4 (0256) 403259, e-mail: dan.pescaru@cs.upt.ro Keywords: Video-based Wireless Sensor Networks, coverage metrics, deployment, redeployment, coverage Abstract Wireless Sensor Networks had a rapid development in the last years. However, still there are unresolved issues such as an optimum way to deploy and redeploy sensors nodes. This article proposes some metrics for sensor deployment in order to accomplish maximum coverage. In addition several applications are analyzed and experimental results are presented. References [1]I.F. Akyildiz, W. Su, Y. Sankarasubramaniam, and E. Cayirci, “Wireless sensor networks: a survey”, Journal of Computer Networks vol. 38, pp. 393–422, 2002. [2]D. Pescaru, D. Fuiorea, V. Gui, C. Toma, G. Muntean, and A. Doboli, \"Image-based Node Localization Algorithm for Wireless Video Sensor Networks,” in Proceedings of IT&T’06 Conference, Carlow, Ireland, pp. 139-148, October 2006. [3]Y. Yang, M. Cardei, “Movement-Assisted Sensor Redeployment Scheme for Network Lifetime Increase”, in Proceedings of MSWiM’07, Chania, Greece, October 22–26, 2007. [4]G. Wang, G. Cao, and T. F. LaPorta, “Movement-assisted Sensor Deployment”, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 5(6), pp. 640-652, 2006 [5]J. Wu and S. Yang, “SMART: a Scan-based Movement-assisted Sensor Deployment Method in Wireless Sensor Networks”, in Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2005, vol. 4, pp. 2313-2324, 2005. [6]S. Chellappan, X. Bai, B. Ma, D. Xuan, and C. Xu, “Mobility Limited Flip-based Sensor Networks Deployment”, IEEE Transactions of Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 18(2), pp. 199-211, 2007. [7]V. Raghunathan, C. Schurgers, S. Park, and M.B. Srivastava, “Energy-Aware Wireless Microsensor Networks,” IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 40-50, March 2002. [8]Xin Liu, “Coverage with Connectivity in Wireless Sensor Networks”, in Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks and Systems BROADNETS’2006, San Jose, USA, pp. 1-8, October 2006. [9]S. Soro and W. B. Heinzelman, “On the Coverage Problem in Video-based Wireless Sensor Networks”, in Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Broadband Networks, Vol. 2, pp. 932- 939, 2005. [10]R. Holman, J. Stanley and T.Ozkan-Haller, “Applying Video Sensor Networks to Nearshore Environment Monitoring,” IEEE Pervasive Computing, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 14-21, 2003. [11]W. Feng, B. Code, E. Kaiser, M. Shea, W. Feng and L. Bavoli, “Panoptes: Scalable Low Power Video Sensor Networking Technologies”, ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications, vol. 1, pp. 151 – 167, January 2005. [12]P. Kulkarni, D. Ganesan abd P. Shenoy, “The Case for Multi-tier Camera Sensor Netwoks”, in Proceedings of the International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV’05), pp. 141 – 146, 2005. [13]M. Chu, J. Reich and F. Zhao, “Distributed Attention in Large Scale Video Sensor Networks”, in Proceedings of Intelligent Distributed Surveillance Systems, pp. 61-65, February 2004. [14] S. Megerian, F. Koushanfar, M. Potkonjak and M. B. Sirvastava, “Worst and Best-Case Coverage in Sensor Networks ”, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing , vol 4, no 1, January 2005. |