Event Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks – Can Fuzzy Values Be Accurate?

Krasimira Kapitanova; Sang Son; Kyoung-Don Kang

Ad Hoc Networks. Second International Conference, ADHOCNETS 2010, Victoria, BC, Canada, August 18-20, 2010, Revised Selected Papers

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Event Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks – Can Fuzzy Values Be Accurate?

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-17994-5_12,
    author={Krasimira Kapitanova and Sang Son and Kyoung-Don Kang},
    title={Event Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks -- Can Fuzzy Values Be Accurate?},
    proceedings={Ad Hoc Networks. Second International Conference, ADHOCNETS 2010, Victoria, BC, Canada, August 18-20, 2010, Revised Selected Papers},
    proceedings_a={ADHOCNETS},
    year={2012},
    month={5},
    keywords={wireless sensor networks fuzzy logic event description event detection accuracy},
    doi={10.1007/978-3-642-17994-5_12}
}

Krasimira Kapitanova
Sang Son
Kyoung-Don Kang
Year: 2012
Event Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks – Can Fuzzy Values Be Accurate?
ADHOCNETS
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-17994-5_12

Krasimira Kapitanova¹^,*, Sang Son¹^,*, Kyoung-Don Kang²^,*

1: University of Virginia
2: Binghamton University

*Contact email: krasi@cs.virginia.edu, son@cs.virginia.edu, kang@cs.binghamton.edu

Abstract

Event detection is a central component in numerous wireless sensor network (WSN) applications. In spite of this, the area of event description has not received enough attention. The majority of current event description approaches rely on using precise values to specify event thresholds. However, we believe that crisp values cannot adequately handle the often imprecise sensor readings. In this paper we demonstrate that using fuzzy values instead of crisp ones significantly improves the accuracy of event detection. We also show that our fuzzy logic approach provides higher detection precision than a couple of well established classification algorithms.

Keywords: wireless sensor networks fuzzy logic event description event detection accuracy

Published: 2012-05-28

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17994-5_12