Exploiting data fusion to improve the coverage of wireless sensor networks

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 450-462

  Tan, Rui ^a   Xing, Guoliang ^a   Liu, Benyuan ^b   Wang, Jianping ^c   Jia, Xiaohua ^c  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

^b University of Massachusetts Lowell   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Coverage; data fusion; mobility; performance limits; target detection; wireless sensor network (WSN)

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL RESULTS; COLLABORATIVE SIGNAL PROCESSING ALGORITHMS; COVERAGE; COVERAGE HOLES; CRITICAL APPLICATIONS; DATA FUSION ALGORITHM; DATA TRACES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EXTENSIVE SIMULATIONS; FUNDAMENTAL LIMITS; FUSION MODEL; MOBILE SENSORS; MULTIPLE SENSORS; NETWORK DENSITY; NOISY MEASUREMENTS; PERFORMANCE LIMITS; PERFORMANCE MEASURE; SECURITY SURVEILLANCE; SENSING COVERAGE; SENSING FIELDS; SENSING MODEL; SIGNAL PATHS; SIGNALTONOISE RATIO (SNR); STOCHASTIC DATA; STOCHASTIC NATURE; SYNTHETIC DATASETS; TARGET SIGNALS; VEHICLE DETECTION; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK (WSN); WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK (WSNS);

ALGORITHMS; CARRIER MOBILITY; DATA FUSION; MONITORING; SENSORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; TARGET TRACKING;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 84859964364     PISSN: 10636692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNET.2011.2164620     Document Type: Article

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