Performance analysis using sequential detection in a serial multi-hop wireless sensor network /
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| Format: | Thesis eBook |
| Language: | English |
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[College Station, Tex.] :
[Texas A&M University],
[2010]
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| Online Access: | Link to OAK Trust copy. |
| Abstract: | Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have been developed for a variety of applications such as battlefield surveillance, environment monitoring, health care and so on. For such applications, the design of WSN has been limited by two main resource constraints, power and delay. Therefore, since wireless sensors with a small battery are subject to strict power constraints, the efficient usage of power is one of the important challenges. As delay-sensitive applications are emerging, they have been in demand for making a quick decision with the enhanced detection accuracy. Under above constraints, we propose a sequential detection scheme and compare it with a Fixed-sample-size (FSS) detection scheme in terms of power and delay. Our main contribution is to analyze the overall system performance of the proposed scheme in the statistical signal processing framework under of power and delay constraints. In this thesis, we evaluate the overall system performance of sequential detection scheme in a serial multi-hop WSN topology. For sequential detection, the sensor nodes continue to relay the observations to the next node until the sequential detector makes a final decision based on the observations. On the other hand, the FSS detector waits until all the observations come to the fusion center, and then gives a final decision. For a fair comparison of the two schemes with respect to power and delay, the initial step is to find the same detection performance region between the two schemes. Detection performance is evaluated with performance measures such as false alarm, miss and prior probability. Simulation results show that each scheme has an advantage and a disadvantage concerning power and delay respectively. That is, sequential detection performs more efficiently in delay since the number of samples in sequential detection is less on average than in FSS detection to obtain the same detection performance. However, FSS detection with a small number of packet paths consumes less power than sequential detection. Through the analysis of a cost function, which is a linear combination of power and delay, we compare the cost value between the two schemes and find less region of the cost value in both schemes. This analysis will provide a good starting point and foundation for designing an efficient multi-hop WSN with small power and delay constraints. |
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| Item Description: | "Major Subject: Electrical Engineering" Title from author supplied metadata (automated record created 2010-03-12 12:08:51). Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |