Catching elephants with mice: Sparse sampling for monitoring sensor networks

SenSys'07 - Proceedings of the 5th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 261-274

  Gandhi, Sorabh ^a   Suri, Subhash ^a   Welzl, Emo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

nets; Monitoring; Sensor networks; VC dimension

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION ERRORS; CONSTANT FACTORS; DATA DISTRIBUTION; DETECTION ALGORITHM; EMPIRICAL PARAMETERS; LARGE-SCALE NETWORK; MONITORING SENSORS; NETWORK ANOMALIES; PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTS; SAMPLE SIZES; SENSORNET; SHAPE GEOMETRY; SHOW THROUGH; SPARSE SAMPLING; VAPNIK-CHERVONENKIS DIMENSIONS; VC-DIMENSION;

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; MAMMALS; NETWORK SECURITY; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSOR NODES; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT;

SENSORS;

EID: 49049084465     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1322263.1322289     Document Type: Conference Paper

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