Localization and Clustering in scalable WSN

Environmental Monitoring network with mobile nodes

Federated Secure Sensor Network (currently in development by Cambridge university) [1] With FRESNEL they aim to build a large scale federated sensor network framework with multiple applications sharing the same resources. They want to guarantee a reliable intra-application communication as well as a scalable and distributed management infrastructure. Orthogonally, privacy and application security should also be maintained.

A Survey of Mobile Phone Sensing [2]

Presents of a survey done in the field of using mobile phone as a monitoring system. He believes that sensor equipped mobile phones will revolutionize many sectors of our economy, including business, healthcare, social networks, environmental monitoring, and transportation.

A Biologically Inspired Networking Model for Wireless Sensor Networks [3]

proposes an energy-efficient topology management model inspired by biological intercell signalling schemes, which allows sensor nodes to form clusters around imminent targets in a purely distributed and autonomous fashion. In particular, nodes in the target vicinity collaborate to form a cluster according to their relative observation quality values, based on a bioinspired lateral induction process

Federated Secure Sensor Network (currently in development by Cambridge university)

A Survey of Mobile Phone Sensing [1]

Mobile Sensor network using wearable sensor (we are here)

A Biologically Inspired Networking Model for Wireless Sensor Networks [3]

Mobile Sensor network using wearable sensor

Possible applications

Crowd management [4]

Health care [5]

What will we do?

Suggest (and implement) a protocol that guarantee localization and clustering as nodes moves.

Clusters are changing as nodes move depending on the event to be detected and the available no. of nodes

Where is novelty?
Most paper suggests protocols for fixed nodes with/without mobile anchors We will propose the situation with are mobile nodes with/without fixed anchors.

How do we know that no one did it before?

I have checked libraries, journals, websites , Current papers [6,7,8 ]suggest developing their algorithms to incorporate mobile nodes as future works.

What will we not do?

We will not address the heterogeneity in nodes platform (assume all nodes are of the same type) We will not address software application that needed to interface different nodes (No cloud computing) However data management (collecting) will be carried out.

How will we do it?

Through simulation
MATLAB : will be used though it is not the best for network simulation, but fast result could be verify the system feasibility Through implementation Microcontroller currently available in the school labs will be adequate platform to develop

What results are expected?

Ability of a WSN with mobile nodes to collect data from some environment and deliver it to a base station as soon as possible.

How do we validate results?

We will Compare results with another WSN involve fixed nodes (considered as the optimum state).

Where to start?
Three recent PhD theses (across British universities) that are deal with localization and clustering are selected. 1. Author [6] develops a protocol for Energy Optimization Algorithm for mobile Wireless Sensor Networks 2. Author [7] develops An adaptive clustering protocol. 3. Author [8] explores the deployment of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) on localised maritime events.

References
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/netos/fresnel N. D. Lane, E. Miluzzo, H. Lu, D. Peebles, T. Choudhury, and A. T. Campbell, "A survey of mobile phone sensing," IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 48, pp. 140-150, 2010. C. Charalambous and C. Shuguang, "A biologically inspired networking model for wireless sensor networks," Network, IEEE, vol. 24, pp. 6-13, 2010. E. T.-H. Chu, Y.-L. Chen, J. W. S. Liu and J. K. Zao Strategies for Crowdsourcing for Disaster Situation Information , WIT Transactions on the Built Environment 119, pp. 257-269. An agent-based signal processing in-node environment for real-time human activity monitoring based on wireless body sensor networks M., Al-Obaidi, ENAMS: Energy Optimization Algorithm for Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks using Evolutionary Computation and Swarm Intelligence , PhD thesis De Montfort University, September 2010 F., Bajaber, Performance Analysis of Cluster Based Communication Protocols for Energy Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks , PhD thesis, School of Computing, Informatics and Media, University of Bradford, 2010 P., Barbosa, Scalable Wireless Sensor Networks for Dynamic Communication Environments: Simulation and Modelling , PhD thesis, School of Electronics and Computer Science, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON, 2011.

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