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The deployment of the sensor nodes (SNs) always plays a decisive role in the system performance of wireless sensor networks (WSNs). In this work, we propose an optimal deployment method for practical heterogeneous WSNs which gives a deep…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Long Chen , Yingying Xu , Fangyi Xu , Qian Hu , Zhenzhou Tang

A sensor is a small electronic device which has the ability to sense, compute and communicate either with other sensors or directly with a base station (sink). In a wireless sensor network (WSN), the sensors monitor a region and transmit…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Banu Kabakulak

In this paper, a energy-efficient data collection method is proposed in which an integration between Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) matrix and clustering in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is exploited.Based on the fact that sensory data…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Minh Nguyen , Keith Teague

Crowdsourcing systems, in which numerous tasks are electronically distributed to numerous "information piece-workers", have emerged as an effective paradigm for human-powered solving of large scale problems in domains such as image…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-03-27 David R. Karger , Sewoong Oh , Devavrat Shah

The emergence of the Internet-of-Things and cyber-physical systems necessitates the coordination of access to limited communication resources in an autonomous and distributed fashion. Herein, the optimal design of a wireless sensing system…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-26 Xu Zhang , Marcos M. Vasconcelos , Wei Cui , Urbashi Mitra

Crowdsourcing can be applied to the Internet-of-Things (IoT) systems to provide more scalable and efficient services to support various tasks. As the driving force of crowdsourcing is the interaction among participants, various incentive…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Duin Baek , Jing Chen , Bong Jun Choi

We consider the problem of multiple sensor scheduling for remote state estimation of multiple process over a shared link. In this problem, a set of sensors monitor mutually independent dynamical systems in parallel but only one sensor can…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-12-30 Duo Han , Junfeng Wu , Yilin Mo , Lihua Xie

Mobile target tracking is crucial in various applications such as surveillance and autonomous navigation. This study presents a decentralized tracking framework utilizing a Consensus-Based Estimation Filter (CBEF) integrated with the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Amir Ahmad Ghods , Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian

We develop novel data dissemination and collection algorithms for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) in which we consider $n$ sensor nodes distributed randomly in a certain field to measure a physical phenomena. Such sensors have limited…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-05-10 Salah A. Aly , Mohamed Salim

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) experiences several technical challenges such as limited energy, short transmission range, limited storage capacities, and limited computational capabilities. Moreover, the sensor nodes are deployed randomly…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Trupti. M. Behera , Sushanta. K. Mohapatra , Umesh. C. Samal , Mohammad. S. Khan

The widespread use of mobile devices propels the development of new-fashioned video applications like 3D (3-Dimensional) stereo video and mobile cloud game via web or App, exerting more pressure on current mobile access network. To address…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Xiaotong Wu , Lianyong Qi , Xiaolong Xu , Shui Yu , Wanchun Dou , Xuyun Zhang

To ensure safety in confined environments such as mines or subway tunnels, a (wireless) sensor network can be deployed to monitor various environmental conditions. One of its most important applications is to track personnel, mobile…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-09-02 Vladimir Savic , Henk Wymeersch , Erik G. Larsson

Compressive Sensing has been utilized in Cognitive Radio Networks (CRNs) to exploit the sparse nature of the occupation of the primary users. Also, distributed spectrum sensing has been proposed to tackle the wireless channel problems, like…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-14 Mohamed Seif , Tamer Elbatt , Karim G. Seddik

Mobile sensing has become a promising paradigm for mobile users to obtain information by task crowdsourcing. However, due to the social preferences of mobile users, the quality of sensing reports may be impacted by the underlying social…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-07-23 Ju Ren , Yaoxue Zhang , Kuan Zhang , Xuemin , Shen

Federated learning (FL) rests on the notion of training a global model in a decentralized manner. Under this setting, mobile devices perform computations on their local data before uploading the required updates to improve the global model.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Shashi Raj Pandey , Nguyen H. Tran , Mehdi Bennis , Yan Kyaw Tun , Aunas Manzoor , Choong Seon Hong

The wireless sensor network is a collection of energy-constrained nodes. Their objective is to sense, collect and process information for some ad-hoc purpose. Typically the nodes are deployed in geographically inaccessible regions. Thus the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-04-16 Subhabrata Mukherjee , Amrita Saha , Mrinal K. Naskar , Amitava Mukherjee

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) suffers from the hot spot problem where the sensor nodes closest to the base station are need to relay more packet than the nodes farther away from the base station. Thus, lifetime of sensory network depends…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-08-04 Hazarath Munaga , J. V. R. Murthy , N. B. Venkateswarlu

Crowdsourcing has become a popular method for collecting labeled training data. However, in many practical scenarios traditional labeling can be difficult for crowdworkers (for example, if the data is high-dimensional or unintuitive, or the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-14 Tom Hope , Dafna Shahaf

Crowdsourcing enables the fine-grained characterization and performance evaluation of today's large-scale networks using the power of the masses and distributed intelligence. This paper presents SmartProbe, a system that assesses the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Enrico Gregori , Alessandro Improta , Luciano Lenzini , Valerio Luconi , Nilo Redini , Alessio Vecchio

Mobile Crowdsourcing (MCS) photo-based is an arising field of interest and a trending topic in the domain of ubiquitous computing. It has recently drawn substantial attention of the smart cities and urban computing communities. In fact, the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Aymen Hamrouni , Hakim Ghazzai , Mounir Frikha , Yehia Massoud