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The localization problem in a wireless sensor network is to determine the coordination of sensor nodes using the known positions of some nodes (called anchors) and corresponding noisy distance measurements. There is a variety of different…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-09-19 Pouya Mollaebrahim Ghari , Reza Shahbazian , Seyed Ali Ghorashi

In this paper, we address the problem of simultaneous classification and estimation of hidden parameters in a sensor network with communications constraints. In particular, we consider a network of noisy sensors which measure a common…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2012-06-19 Fabio Fagnani , Sophie M. Fosson , Chiara Ravazzi

Traditionally power distribution networks are either not observable or only partially observable. This complicates development and implementation of new smart grid technologies, such as those related to demand response, outage detection and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-02 Deepjyoti Deka , Scott Backhaus , Michael Chertkov

This paper considers the optimal sensor allocation for estimating the emission rates of multiple sources in a two-dimensional spatial domain. Locations of potential emission sources are known (e.g., factory stacks), and the number of…

Computation · Statistics 2025-09-09 Xinchao Liu , Dzung Phan , Youngdeok Hwang , Levente Klein , Xiao Liu , Kyongmin Yeo

This paper studies sensor placement when detection performance varies stochastically due to environmental factors over space and time and false alarms are present, but a filter is used to attenuate the effect. We introduce a unified model…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-04 Mingyu Kim , Pronoy Sarker , Seungmo Kim , Daniel J. Stilwell , Jorge Jimenez

Wireless sensor network (WSN) is a collection of nodes which can communicate with each other without any prior infrastructure along with the ability to collect data autonomously and effectively after being deployed in an ad-hoc fashion to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-04-16 Subhabrata Mukherjee , Anand Seetharam , Abhishek Bhattacharyya , Mrinal. K. Naskar , Amitava Mukherjee

Understanding the dynamics of complex systems is a central task in many different areas ranging form biology via epidemics to economics and engineering. Unexpected behaviour of dynamic systems or even systems failure is sometimes difficult…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-11 Dominik Kahl , Andreas Weber , Maik Kschischo

The sensor network localization (SNL) problem is to reconstruct the positions of all the sensors in a network with the given distance between pairs of sensors and within the radio range between them. It is proved that the computational…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-10 Xiaojun Zhou

Designing a cost-effective sensor placement plan for sewage surveillance is a crucial task because it allows cost-effective early pandemic outbreak detection as supplementation for individual testing. However, this problem is…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Sunyu Wang , Yutong Xia , Huanfa Chen , Xinyi Tong , Yulun Zhou

Planning the movement of the sink to maximize the lifetime in wireless sensor networks is an essential problem of great research challenge and practical value. Many existing mobile sink techniques based on mathematical programming or…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Xiaoxu Han , Xin Mu , Jinghui Zhong

With the recent development of technology, wireless sensor networks are becoming an important part of many applications such as health and medical applications, military applications, agriculture monitoring, home and office applications,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-06-27 Biljana Stojkoska , Ilinka Ivanoska , Danco Davcev

Based on machine learning techniques, we propose a novel method to estimate flow fields using only floating sensor locations. This method does not require either ground-truth velocity fields or governing equations for fluid flows, which is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-07 Tomoya Oura , Reno Miura , Koji Fukagata

Countries with access to large bodies of water often aim to protect their maritime transport by employing maritime surveillance systems. However, the number of available sensors (e.g., cameras) is typically small compared to the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Bach Long Nguyen , Anh-Dzung Doan , Tat-Jun Chin , Christophe Guettier , Surabhi Gupta , Estelle Parra , Ian Reid , Markus Wagner

Urban flooding triggered by intense rainfall is becoming increasingly frequent and widespread. While flood prediction and monitoring in high spatio-temporal resolution are desired, practical constraints in time, budget, and technology…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Zihang Ding , Amit Kumar , Imran Md. Azizul Islam , Mila Avellar Montezuma , Ruihang Zhang , Kun Zhang

In this paper, we proposed the \textit{link injection}, a novel method that helps any differentiable graph machine learning models to go beyond observed connections from the input data in an end-to-end learning fashion. It finds out (weak)…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Jie Bu , M. Maruf , Arka Daw

We study the problem of sensor placement in environments in which localization is a necessity, such as ad-hoc wireless sensor networks that allow the placement of a few anchors that know their location or sensor arrays that are tracking a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-07-21 Ioana O. Bercea , Volkan Isler , Samir Khuller

In scientific machine learning, models are routinely deployed with parameter values or boundary conditions far from those used in training. This paper studies the learning-where-to-learn problem of designing a training data distribution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Nicolas Guerra , Nicholas H. Nelsen , Yunan Yang

This paper considers the problem of optimally deploying omnidirectional sensors, with potentially limited sensing radius, in a network-like environment. This model provides a compact and effective description of complex environments as well…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-06-18 Luca Greco , Matteo Gaeta , Benedetto Piccoli

We study a hierarchical heterogeneous Rayleigh fading wireless sensor network (WSN) in which sensor nodes surveil a region of interest (RoI) and use access points (APs) as relays to transmit their sensed information to base stations (BSs).…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Saeed Karimi-Bidhendi , Hamid Jafarkhani

Sensor nodes are low cost, low power devices that are used to collect physical data and monitor environmental conditions from remote locations. Wireless Sensor Networks(WSN) are collection of sensor nodes, coordinating among themselves to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-03-18 Deepali Virmani , Satbir Jain