Publication Type

Journal Article

Version

acceptedVersion

Publication Date

9-2012

Abstract

In-network processing, involving operations such as filtering, compression and fusion, is a technique widely used in wireless sensor and ad hoc networks for reducing the communication overhead. In many tactical stream-oriented applications, especially in military scenarios, both link bandwidth and node energy are critically constrained resources. For such applications, in-network processing itself imposes non-negligible computing cost. In this work, we have developed a unified, utility-based closed-loop control framework that permits distributed convergence to both a) the optimal level of compression performed by a forwarding node on streams, and b) the best set of nodes where the operators of the stream processing graph should be deployed. We also show how the generalized model can be adapted to more realistic cases, where the in-network operator may be varied only in discrete steps, and where a fusion operation cannot be fractionally distributed across multiple nodes. Finally, we provide a real-time implementation of the protocol on an 802.11b network with a video application and show that the performance of the network is improved significantly in terms of the packet loss, node lifetime and quality of video received.

Keywords

Applications, Communication/Networking and Information Technology, Wireless communication

Discipline

Software Engineering

Research Areas

Software and Cyber-Physical Systems

Publication

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Volume

11

Issue

9

First Page

1484

Last Page

1498

ISSN

1536-1233

Identifier

10.1109/TMC.2011.169

Publisher

IEEE

Copyright Owner and License

Authors

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1109/TMC.2011.169

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