Title
Optimized energy allocation in battery powered image sensor networks
Abstract
We investigate energy allocation strategies in image sensor networks for the purpose of maximizing the network operational lifetime. For the application scenarios that we consider, visual coverage over a monitored region is obtained by deploying wireless, battery-powered image sensors. Each sensor camera provides coverage over a part of the monitored region and a central processor coordinates the sensors in order to gather required visual data. We characterize the network lifetime as a stochastic random variable that depends upon the coverage geometry for the sensors and the distribution of data requests over the monitored region. Using this characterization we consider optimized strategies for energy allocation among the sensors that maximize the expected network lifetime. The formulation naturally leads to a max-min optimization problem that aims to maximize the duration of coverage for the most critical region for which the available energy is the least. We transform this problem into an equivalent linear programming problem, leading to a computationally efficient solution. The effectiveness of the proposed energy allocation strategy is validated by simulations.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/ICIP.2009.5413843
ICIP
Keywords
Field
DocType
network lifetime,image sensor network,stochastic processes,proposed energy allocation strategy,battery powered image sensor networks,expected network lifetime,visual coverage,stochastic random variable,linear programming,image sensors,available energy,energy allocation,coverage geometry,monitored region,equivalent linear programming problem,critical region,optimized energy allocation,energy allocation strategy,random variable,optimization,optimization problem,image sensor,linear program,visualization,wireless sensor networks,resource management
Random variable,Wireless,Computer science,Real-time computing,Linear programming,Artificial intelligence,Available energy,Optimization problem,Computer vision,Mathematical optimization,Image sensor,Stochastic process,Wireless sensor network
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1522-4880 E-ISBN : 978-1-4244-5655-0
978-1-4244-5655-0
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
6
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chao Yu1273.90
Gaurav Sharma264056.64