Event Coverage Detection and Event Source Determination in Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks

With the advent of the Internet of Underwater Things, smart things are deployed in the ocean space and establish underwater wireless sensor networks for the monitoring of vast and dynamic underwater environments. When events are found to have possibly occurred, accurate event coverage should be dete...

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Main Authors: Zhangbing Zhou, Riliang Xing, Yucong Duan, Yueqin Zhu, Jianming Xiang
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Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2015-12-01
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/15/12/29875
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author Zhangbing Zhou
Riliang Xing
Yucong Duan
Yueqin Zhu
Jianming Xiang
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Riliang Xing
Yucong Duan
Yueqin Zhu
Jianming Xiang
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description With the advent of the Internet of Underwater Things, smart things are deployed in the ocean space and establish underwater wireless sensor networks for the monitoring of vast and dynamic underwater environments. When events are found to have possibly occurred, accurate event coverage should be detected, and potential event sources should be determined for the enactment of prompt and proper responses. To address this challenge, a technique that detects event coverage and determines event sources is developed in this article. Specifically, the occurrence of possible events corresponds to a set of neighboring sensor nodes whose sensory data may deviate from a normal sensing range in a collective fashion. An appropriate sensor node is selected as the relay node for gathering and routing sensory data to sink node(s). When sensory data are collected at sink node(s), the event coverage is detected and represented as a weighted graph, where the vertices in this graph correspond to sensor nodes and the weight specified upon the edges reflects the extent of sensory data deviating from a normal sensing range. Event sources are determined, which correspond to the barycenters in this graph. The results of the experiments show that our technique is more energy efficient, especially when the network topology is relatively steady.
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spelling doaj.art-9076d67914434ff18c20a8bbca8c9c122022-12-22T02:57:53ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202015-12-011512316203164310.3390/s151229875s151229875Event Coverage Detection and Event Source Determination in Underwater Wireless Sensor NetworksZhangbing Zhou0Riliang Xing1Yucong Duan2Yueqin Zhu3Jianming Xiang4School of Computer & Communication Engineering, University of Science & Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, ChinaSchool of Information Engineering, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Beijing 100083, ChinaCollege of Information Science and Technology, Hainan University, Haikou 570228, ChinaDevelopment Research Center of China Geological Survey, and Key Laboratory of Geological Information Technology, Ministry of Land and Resources, Beijing 100037, ChinaSchool of Information Engineering, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Beijing 100083, ChinaWith the advent of the Internet of Underwater Things, smart things are deployed in the ocean space and establish underwater wireless sensor networks for the monitoring of vast and dynamic underwater environments. When events are found to have possibly occurred, accurate event coverage should be detected, and potential event sources should be determined for the enactment of prompt and proper responses. To address this challenge, a technique that detects event coverage and determines event sources is developed in this article. Specifically, the occurrence of possible events corresponds to a set of neighboring sensor nodes whose sensory data may deviate from a normal sensing range in a collective fashion. An appropriate sensor node is selected as the relay node for gathering and routing sensory data to sink node(s). When sensory data are collected at sink node(s), the event coverage is detected and represented as a weighted graph, where the vertices in this graph correspond to sensor nodes and the weight specified upon the edges reflects the extent of sensory data deviating from a normal sensing range. Event sources are determined, which correspond to the barycenters in this graph. The results of the experiments show that our technique is more energy efficient, especially when the network topology is relatively steady.http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/15/12/29875event coverage detectionevent sources determinationrouting treeweighted graphunderwater wireless sensor networks
spellingShingle Zhangbing Zhou
Riliang Xing
Yucong Duan
Yueqin Zhu
Jianming Xiang
Event Coverage Detection and Event Source Determination in Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks
Sensors
event coverage detection
event sources determination
routing tree
weighted graph
underwater wireless sensor networks
title Event Coverage Detection and Event Source Determination in Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks
title_full Event Coverage Detection and Event Source Determination in Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks
title_fullStr Event Coverage Detection and Event Source Determination in Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks
title_full_unstemmed Event Coverage Detection and Event Source Determination in Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks
title_short Event Coverage Detection and Event Source Determination in Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks
title_sort event coverage detection and event source determination in underwater wireless sensor networks
topic event coverage detection
event sources determination
routing tree
weighted graph
underwater wireless sensor networks
url http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/15/12/29875
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