Distributed interfering sensor scheduling scheme for target tracking

Fan Zhang; Jiming Chen; Hongbin Li; Youxian Sun; Xuemin (Sherman) Shen

5th International ICST Conference on Communications and Networking in China

Research Article

Distributed interfering sensor scheduling scheme for target tracking

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/chinacom.2010.49,
    author={Fan Zhang and Jiming Chen and Hongbin Li and Youxian Sun and Xuemin (Sherman) Shen},
    title={Distributed interfering sensor scheduling scheme for target tracking},
    proceedings={5th International ICST Conference on Communications and Networking in China},
    publisher={IEEE},
    proceedings_a={CHINACOM},
    year={2011},
    month={1},
    keywords={Acoustics Decision support systems Delay Distance measurement Sensors Target tracking Wireless sensor networks},
    doi={10.4108/chinacom.2010.49}
}

Fan Zhang
Jiming Chen
Hongbin Li
Youxian Sun
Xuemin (Sherman) Shen
Year: 2011
Distributed interfering sensor scheduling scheme for target tracking
CHINACOM
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/chinacom.2010.49

Fan Zhang¹^,*, Jiming Chen^1,2^,*, Hongbin Li¹^,*, Youxian Sun¹^,*, Xuemin (Sherman) Shen²^,*

1: State Key Laboratory of Industrial Control Technology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027 China
2: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada

*Contact email: zhangfan@iipc.zju.edu.cn, jmchen@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca, hbli@iipc.zju.edu.cn, yxsun@iipc.zju.edu.cn, xshen@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca

Abstract

For target tracking applications, active ultrasonic sensors may suffer from inter-sensor-interference when these highly dense deployed sensors are not scheduled. In this paper, we propose a dynamic distributed sensor scheduling (DSS) scheme, where the tasking sensor is elected spontaneously from the sensors with pending sensing tasks in a distributed way via random competition by using Carrier Sense Multiple Access (CSMA)-like fashion, and releases the channel immediately when ranging task is done. Both simulation results and testbed experiment demonstrate the efficiency of DSS scheme in terms of system scalability and tracking performance.

Keywords: Acoustics Decision support systems Delay Distance measurement Sensors Target tracking Wireless sensor networks

Published: 2011-01-10
Publisher: IEEE

: http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/chinacom.2010.49