Document Type

Conference Paper

Publication Date

6-2009

Publication Title

Proceedings of the IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh, and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON)

Department

Department of Computer Science

Abstract

In people-centric opportunistic sensing, people offer their mobile nodes (such as smart phones) as platforms for collecting sensor data. A sensing application distributes sensing `tasks,' which specify what sensor data to collect and under what conditions to report the data back to the application. To perform a task, mobile nodes may use on-board sensors, a body-area network of personal sensors, or sensors from neighboring nodes that volunteer to contribute their sensing resources. In all three cases, continuous sensor monitoring can drain a node's battery. \par We propose DEAMON (Distributed Energy-Aware MONitoring), an energy-efficient distributed algorithm for long-term sensor monitoring. Our approach assumes only that mobile nodes are tasked to report sensor data under conditions specified by a Boolean expression, and that a network of nearby sensor nodes contribute to monitoring subsets of the task's sensors. Our algorithm to select sensor nodes and to monitor the sensing condition conserves energy of all nodes by limiting sensing and communication operations. We evaluate DEAMON with a stochastic analysis and with simulation results, and show that it should significantly reduce energy consumption.

DOI

10.1109/SAHCN.2009.5168925

Original Citation

Minho Shin, Patrick Tsang, David Kotz, and Cory Cornelius. DEAMON: Energy-Efficient Sensor Monitoring. In Proceedings of the IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh, and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), June 2009. 10.1109/SAHCN.2009.5168925

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