Strategies for data dissemination to mobile sinks in wireless. Adaptive, distributed location management in mobile. Abstractmobility management is a major challenge in mobile ad hoc networks manets due in part to the dynamically changing network topologies. Performance analysis and mobility management in wireless. To obtain a benefit from those issues, most of the. Multitarget tracking in distributed sensor networks. The application areas of wsn comprises of environmental monitoring, military surveillance, health care, industrial process control, home intelligence, security, remote metering and many more. Distributed mobility management for efficient video delivery. Centralised target tracking in wireless sensor networks has been studied on collaborative sensing, energyefficient routing and management and sensor node deployment. Distributed mobility management for target tracking in mobile sensor networks yi zou, member, ieee, and krishnendu chakrabarty, senior member, ieee abstractmobility management is a major challenge in mobile ad hoc networks manets due in part to the dynamically changing network topologies.
Zoubir, fellow, ieee abstractmultitarget tracking is an important problem in civilian and military applications. Wireless sensor networks wsns are a typical example of this kind of networks 2,3. Challenge of mobility management for sensor networks based on 6lowpan. Many applications such as object tracking, health monitoring. Institute of technology and management university, sector 10 a, gurgaon, india. A major obstacle in dealing with mobile networks is to guarantee network connectivity. In target tracking, the presence of targets isare detected and then tracked at regular intervals of. Sensor placement for effective coverage and surveillance in distributed sensor networks. Introduction in the wsns, the power consumption is very important issue in many mobile target tracking applications because sensor nodes are usually operated on limited batteries 11.
Many applications such as object tracking, health moni. To ensure timely tracking of targets in a given volume of interest, the surveillance sensor network needs to maintain engagement with all targets in this volume. Centralised target tracking in wireless sensor networks has been studied on collaborative sensing, energyefficient routing and management and sensor node deployment relatively less attention has been devoted to the problem of mobility management for mobile sensor networks, which yieldsnode disconnection, loss of sensing coverage and higher. In proceedings of the 6th ieee conference on distributed computing in sensor systems dcoss10. A novel mobility management scheme for target tracking in clusterbased sensor networks. Mobility in wireless sensor networks northeastern university. An energyefficient collaborative target tracking framework.
A novel mobility management scheme for target tracking in cluster. Distributed estimation and control for twotarget tracking. In this paper, we propose linear programming models which handle two missions. Since radio communication is the most energyconsuming operation, this framework aims to reduce the number of messages and the number of message collisions, while providing refined. Distributed data association for multi target tracking in sensor networks nils f. Distributed and energyefficient target localization and. Salim and mitsuji matsumoto abstractdespite the fact that the deployment of sensor networks and target tracking could both be managed by taking full advantage of voronoi diagrams, very little few have been made in this regard. The main problem of interest is distributed multitarget tracking using multi mobile wireless sensor networks.
Firstly, we discuss mobility management of mobile sensors for the. Distributed detection of randomly located targets in. Thus the network must be able to perform the following realtime tasks. Submitted for publication 1 distributed multitarget tracking. With the limited capabilities in a sensor node, an important issue of target tracking is how to perform efficient information processing of the target. Sandell and reza olfatisaber dartmouth college hanover, nh 03755 fnils. First, each mobile sensor in our solution controls. Distributed and dynamic mobility management in mobile.
Collaborative data processing in wireless sensor networks. Firstly, we discuss mobility management of mobile sensors for the purposes of forming a better wsn, enhancing. Mobility management is a functionality that facilitates mobile device operations in universal mobile telecommunications system umts or global system for mobile communications gsm networks. In allip mobile networks, as mobile nodes may frequently change their point of attachment to the ip network i. Submitted for publication 1 distributed multitarget tracking in autonomous sensor networks mark r. Distributed mobility management for target tracking in. Strategies for data dissemination to mobile sinks in. Mobility management is used to trace physical user and subscriber locations to provide mobile phone services, like calls and short message service sms. Sensor networks can be divided into two categories based on the relative sensing range of their nodes. To overcome such limitations, we propose a new distributed groupbased mobility management scheme, in which the. Target tracking with limited sensing range in autonomous. Distributed detection of randomly located targets in mobility. Target tracking with limited sensing range in autonomous mobile sensor networks jing bai.
The constantly changing topology due to node movement makes mobility management difficult for mobile sensor networks. A selforganizing virtual architecture for underwater sensor networks, iet. Distributed information compression for target tracking in. Mostly the current issues on mobility management have been focused on communication, such as personal communication services. Distributed energy optimization for target tracking in. Distributed data association for multitarget tracking in. This project deals with the target tracking applications of wsns. Target tracking problem in a mobile sensor network msn. Performance gain achieved by adding mobile nodes to a stationary sensor network for target detection depends on factors such as the number of mobile nodes deployed, mobility patterns, speed and energy constraints of mobile nodes, and the nature of the target locations deterministic or random. Submitted for publication 1 distributed multitarget.
An empirical approach distributed mobility management for. Assuming that sensors have nonrechargeable batteries, one of the most critical aspects of otsn is energy consumption. Target tracking and mobile sensor navigation in wireless sensor. Mobility based network lifetime in wireless sensor networks arxiv. Target tracking in noisy wireless sensor network using artificial neural network. Sensor deployment and target localization in distributed sensor networks y zou, k chakrabarty acm transactions on embedded computing systems tecs 3 1, 6191, 2004. Distributed energy optimization for target tracking in wireless sensor networks article in ieee transactions on mobile computing 91. Early research in msn proved that even stochastic movement of the sensor nodes can improve the whole network throughput 1. An efficientenergy model for mobile target tracking in. Pdf target tracking in wireless sensor network researchgate. Nov 28, 2014 a survey on target tracking techniques in wireless sensor networks. Mobile wireless sensor network for target tracking 7 exchange. Sensor mobility and sink mobility have been discussed in 2, 3 and 4, 5, respectively.
Yang2 1school of electronic and information engineering, xian jiaotong university, china 2school of engineering and electronics, university of edinburgh, edinburgh eh9 3jl, united kingdom. Distributed target tracking and synchronization in wireless. International journal of distributed sensor networks sage. A large number of important applications depend on sensor networks interfacing with the real world.
Mobility management scheme for mobile sensor networks considers target tracking quality, connectivity breakage, and loss of sensing coverage and energy consumption due to node movement. The stability of the cascading mobile sensor networks requires the collisionfree of mobile sensors and the tracking of mobile targets using a combination of the flocking and the filtering algorithms. Cellular automata, mobile wireless sensor networks, target tracking, distributed algorithms 1. Salek talangi distributed mobility management for target tracking in mobile sensor networks 66 purpose creation of an algorithm that estimates the consequences of node movement. Abstract wireless sensor networks wsns offer a convenient way to monitor. This problem becomes specifically challenging given the mobility of both sensors and targets objects, in which the trajectories of sensors and targets need to. Dynamic change in the cluster structure leads to performance degradation of the network. Implementation of the target tracking in mobile sensor. Wireless sensor networks target tracking mobility management boundary problem. Mobile sensors can improve network coverage and target detection performance as.
Calculating the duration of connectivity between the underwater nodes a selforganizing network architecture by utilizing the dynamic formation of virtual topology 18 source. Distributed computing in sensor systems pp 172186 cite as. Distributed groupbased mobility management scheme in. In proceedings of the ieee wireless communications and networking conference wcnc. A single mobile target tracking in voronoibased clustered.
Mobile wireless sensor network mwsn has emerged as a vibrant research field in the domain of sensor networks as execution of applications now primarily depend upon the mobility of sensor nodes. Considering the problem of single target tracking in controlled mobility sensor networks, researchers in 6 have. In all of these applications, target tracking addresses the problem of combining sensed data and target history to provide accurate and timely knowledge of the location of one or more moving objects. So we need to manage the mobility in a controlled manner. Mani krishna target tracking has emerged as an important application of sensor networks. Mobility management algorithms and applications for mobile sensor. Energy consumption and tracking accuracy are two significant issues for collaborative tracking in distributed wireless sensor networks dwsns. Distributed adaptability and mobility in space based. Olfatisaber 2007, distributed tracking for mobile sensor networks. The output of each sensor is only one bit, which means that the energy consumption of the binary sensor model is very low, but also this means there is limited information for the base station to localize the target. Since the estimation generated by is directly used in the control input, this system is called a cascading distributed estimation and control system. The authors in 8,9,10,11 use the simple binary sensor for target tracking. Data collection in wireless sensor networks with mobile elements.
In target tracking, the presence of target s isare detected and then tracked at regular intervals of. Distributed mobility management for target tracking in mobile. Thus, in order to describe the target behaviors and incorporate statistical models for the task, the idea of hierarchically organizing the sensors may be used to provide network scalability and achieve energy conservation. Distributed target tracking and synchronization in. Due to limitations of power supplies, power management and power efficient target tracking techniques have become more and more critical. Ip mobility management, as compared with distributed and dynamic mobility management in section iii. Sayeed, distributed target classification and tracking in sensor. Request pdf distributed mobility management for target tracking in mobile sensor networks mobility management is a major challenge in mobile ad hoc networks manets due in part to the. Target tracking is one of the applications of mobile sensor networks. In this paper, we address the problem of distributed detection of a randomly located target by a. This problem becomes specifically challenging given the mobility of both sensors and targets objects, in which the trajectories of sensors and targets need to be captured or find location. Target tracking is an important problem in sensor networks, where it dictates how accurate a targets position can be measured.
Introduction wireless sensor networks wsns play important roles in a wide range of applications such as industrial control and monitoring 14, security 15, military sensing 9. Distributed tracking for mobile sensor networks with. Wireless sensor networks are expected to be one of the key enabling technologies in the next 10 years. Distributed mobility management for efficient video. A ca model for target tracking in distributed mobile wireless. Distributed mobility management for target tracking. Implementation of the target tracking in mobile sensor networks. International journal of distributed sensor networks. Distributed target engagement in largescale mobile sensor.
When the number of nodes deployed increases, the target tracking quality is improved because more sensor data are available within the onehop. Multiple mobile target tracking in wireless sensor networks. Wireless sensor network wsn comprises of huge number of spatially distributed homogeneous or heterogeneous sensors. Distributed target tracking and synchronization in wireless sensor networks by jichuan li doctor of philosophy in electrical engineering washington university in st. Wireless sensor networks wsns have been used in many application domains, such as target tracking or environmental monitoring. Louis, 2016 professor arye nehorai, chair wireless sensor networks provide useful information for various applications but pose chal. Distributed deployment schemes for mobile wireless sensor networks to ensure multilevel coverage. Protocols for such networks should be highly flexible in order to adapt to topology changes due to node mobility.
An object tracking sensor network otsn is made of \m\ static wireless sensors scattered throughout a geographical area for tracking \n\ mobile targets. Applications for wireless sensor networks fall in three major categories. Wireless sensor networks wsns are distributed embedded systems consisting of a large number of lowcost, lowpower, multifunctional sensor nodes. A single mobile target tracking in voronoibased clustered wireless sensor network jiehui chen, mariam b. Introduction wireless sensor networks wsns play important roles in a wide range of applications such as industrial control and monitoring 14, security 15. In this paper, we propose and evaluate a distributed, energyefficient, lightweight framework for target localization and tracking in wireless sensor networks. The main problem of interest is distributed multi target tracking using multi mobile wireless sensor networks. Finally, distributed algorithms for the mobility of sensor nodes have been.
As wsn continuously monitor the environment, target tracking proved out to be one of. Distributed mobility management for target tracking in mobile sensor networks. For mobile sensor networks that are deployed for surveillance applications, it is important to use a mobility management scheme that can empower nodes to make better decisions regarding their positions such that strategic tasks such as target tracking can benefit from node movement. A ca model for target tracking in distributed mobile. Distributed energy efficient tracking in hybrid wireless sensor network deeth. Mobility management is the important parameter that affects the performance and lifetime of the mobile sensor networks. Algorithms, management, measurement, performance, design, wireless sensor networks, mobile target tracking, lifetime, energy consumption.
Networks in support of mobile smallscale robot squads that coordinate for performing a. Preserving or improving network connectivity is a key challenge in this. A protocol for tracking mobile targets using sensor networks h. Target tracking for mobile sensor networks using distributed motion planning and distributed filtering, multirobot systems, trends and development, toshiyuki yasuda, intechopen, doi. Distributed adaptability and mobility in space based wireless. Balthasar, student member, ieee, paolo braca, member, ieee, and abdelhak m. It then discusses the networks for which distributed mobility management is relevant in section iv and categorizes different approaches in distributed and dynamic mobility management in section v. In this paper, we describe a distributed mobility management scheme for mobile sensor networks. In response to the recent surge of interest in mobile sensor applications, this paper studies the target tracking problem in a mobile sensor network msn, where it is believed that mobility can be exploited to improve. Sikdar department of electrical, computer and systems engineering rensselaer polytechnic institute troy, ny 12180 email. For groupbased mobility management in 6lowpanbased wireless body area networks wban, some schemes using the proxy mobile ipv6 pmip have been proposed.
In this paper, we address the problem of distributed detection of a randomly located target. A survey on mobility management protocols in wireless sensor. May 20, 2010 performance gain achieved by adding mobile nodes to a stationary sensor network for target detection depends on factors such as the number of mobile nodes deployed, mobility patterns, speed and energy constraints of mobile nodes, and the nature of the target locations deterministic or random. However, the existing pmipbased mobility schemes tend to induce large registration delay and handover delay. To overcome such limitations, we propose a new distributed groupbased mobility management scheme, in which the local mobility. Ieee transactions on parallel and distributed systems 19, 9, 12801294. Distributed adaptability and mobility in space based wireless picosatellite sensor networks wei li1,2, tughrul arslan2, ahmed o. Typically, it can be assumed that sensors are immobile.
Example of a wireless sensor network wsn for target tracking and intrusion detection applications using static and mobile sinks. Existing methods attempt to achieve these requirements for. Request pdf target tracking and mobile sensor navigation in wireless. Distributed data association for multitarget tracking in sensor networks nils f.