Survey on target tracking in wireless sensor networks booklet

Evaluations of target tracking in wireless sensor networks sam phu manh tran t. Collaborative multitarget tracking in wireless sensor networks. The number of sensor nodes in a sensor network can be several orders of magnitude higher than the nodes in an ad hoc network. A survey of secure target tracking algorithms for wireless. Coverage and connectivity issues in wireless sensor networks. A survey mohammad abu alsheikh y, dinh thai hoang, dusit niyato, hweepink tan and shaowei lin school of computer engineering, nanyang technological university, singapore 639798 ysense and senseabilities programme, institute for infocomm research, singapore 8632. Target tracking is one of the fundamental applications of wireless sensor networks. The prime motivation of our work is to balance the inherent tradeoff between the resource consumption and the accuracy of the target tracking. In this work we have discussed applications and various issues of target tracking in wireless sensor networks and made a survey on related works. A survey on routing protocols for wireless sensor networks.

Multiple target tracking with rf sensor networks maurizio bocca, ossi kaltiokallio, neal patwari member, ieee and suresh venkatasubramanian abstractrf sensor networks are wireless networks that can localize and track people or targets without needing them to carry or wear any electronic device. In target tracking function, sensor node senses the. The number of sensor nodes in a sensor network can be several orders of magnitude higher than the nodes in an ad hoc. This paper examines some of the target detection and tracking algorithms in use today.

Routing optimization and secure target tracking in. Wireless sensor networks have been the subject of intense research in recent years. Multitarget tracking in distributed sensor networks. The second is following its track once it has been discovered. Nevertheless, the acceptance of wireless sensor networks by the industrial community is not without its difficulties. Due to the availability of such low energy cost sensors, microprocessor, and radio frequency circuitry for information transmission, there is a wide and rapid diffusion of wireless sensor network wsn. Target tracking as it moves through a sensor network has become an increasingly important application in wireless sensor networks. Zebranet is composed of sensor nodes built into the zebras collar. A survey on secure localization in wireless sensor networks avinash srinivasan and jie wu florida atlantic university, boca raton, fl, usa keywords. A survey article pdf available in acm computing surveys 49 2. Wireless sensor network protocols sensor network services sensor network deployment survey abstract a wireless sensor network wsn has important applications such as remote environmental monitoring and target tracking.

A survey on sensor networks eecs instructional support. Alsalhi abstract wireless sensor networks wsns have facilitated human life in different. Routing optimization and secure target tracking in distributed wireless sensor networks. A tracking range based ant colony routing protocol for mobile wireless sensor network. Target localization and tracking in wireless sensor networks. Evaluations of target tracking in wireless sensor networks. Applications of wireless sensor networks a survey ieee. We envision that, in future, wireless sensor networks will be an integral part of our lives, more so than the presentday personal computers. A comparative study of target tracking approaches in wireless sensor networks asmaaezzaidiandsaidrakrak laboratory of applied mathematics and computer science lamai, faculty of science and technology, cadi ayyad university, marrakesh, morocco correspondence should be addressed to asm aa ezzaidi. In this article, a survey of techniques for tracking multiple targets in distributed sensor networks is provided and introduce some recent developments. In proceedings of the 2014 7th international symposium on telecommunications. Conventional research on this topic focuses on the 01 coverage model, which is only a coarse approximation to the practical sensing model. Target tracking scheme comprises of three interrelated subsystems which are shown in the figure 1.

Multiple mobile target tracking in wireless sensor networks. Wireless sensor nodes are being employed in various applications like in traffic control, battlefield, and habitat monitoring, emergency rescue, aerospace. Intensifying competition is advancing wireless sensor network wsn technologies and driving internet of things markets. Target tracking in wireless sensor networks intechopen. Markov decision processes with applications in wireless sensor networks. Wireless sensor technology is rapidly spreading all around the world. In this section, we survey the state of the art of some target tracking protocols in wireless sensor networks, and. To illustrate this point, the differences between sensor networks and ad hoc networks are. Application centric design, geoff v merrett and yen kheng tan, intechopen, doi. A survey of security issues in wireless sensor networks. International journal of distributed sensor networks. Authors address many of the key challenges faced in the design, analysis and deployment of wireless sensor networks.

Applications of wireless sensor networks a survey abstract. A survey on target tracking techniques in wireless sensor networks. Since the number of sensor increases in the network, more messages are not sent to the sink and uses extra bandwidth. The tracking and resource management issues can be readily extended to mtt. Chapters are written by several of the leading researchers exclusively for this book. Review article a comparative study of target tracking approaches in wireless sensor networks asmaaezzaidiandsaidrakrak laboratory of applied mathematics and computer science lamai, faculty of science and technology, cadi ayyad university. A survey of target tracking methods in wireless sensor. Target tracking deals with finding spatial coordinates of a moving object and being able to track its movements. Assuming that sensors have nonrechargeable batteries, one of the most critical aspects of otsn is energy consumption. Realization of these and other sensor network applications require wireless ad hoc. Mac layer protocols for batterypowered networks and energy harvestingbased networks are discussed and compared. Keywords wireless sensor network, target tracking methods, protocols, metrics, research issues. Mobile object tracking in wireless sensor networks.

One of the most interesting applications in wireless sensor networks is target tracking, which mainly consists in detecting and monitoring the motion of mobile targets. Detecting and tracking a target as it moves through a sensor network has become an increasingly important application for sensor networks. Survey of target tracking protocols using wireless sensor. This paper examines some of the target tracking techniques in use today. A survey on target tracking techniques in wireless sensor. Implementation of the target tracking in mobile sensor.

Energy efficient target tracking and data collection in. We identify three different formulations for the target tracking problem and classify the target tracking algorithms based on common characteristics. Localization is the process by which an object determines its spatial coordinates in a given. Masterslave target tracking algorithm for wireless sensor. One of the key application of wsn is target tracking. Doppler effect on target tracking in wireless sensor networks. A survey on secure localization in wireless sensor networks. Adaptive quantized target tracking in wireless sensor networks majdi mansouri ouachani ilham hichem snoussi ce. Pdf a survey on target tracking techniques in wireless sensor. Using a wireless sensor network, many more data can be collected compared to just one sensor.

Target tracking has emerged as an important application of sensor networks. In this survey, we give an overview of wireless sensor networks and their application domains including the challenges that should be addressed in order to push the technology further. Sensor nodes are used in wide range of applications such as security, military, and environmental monitoring. Coverage which is one of the most important performance metrics for sensor networks reflects how well a sensor field is monitored. Identification and classification of multiple targets. Many routing, power management, and data dissemination. Consisting of a large number of lowpower camera nodes, visual sensor networks support a great number of novel visionbased applications. Survey of target tracking protocols using wireless sensor network. Review article a comparative study of target tracking.

Adversary, attack, beacon, intruder, localization, security, wireless sensor networks. Wireless sensor networks consist of small nodes with sensing, computation, and wireless communications capabilities. Target tracking scheme classification the sensing subsystem is used to sense the target i. Target tracking is one of the non trivial applications of wireless sensor network which is set up in the areas of field surveillance, habitat monitoring, indoor buildings, and intruder tracking. In this survey, unusual authors methods are compared and examined to derive an active technique called as target tracking in wireless sensor networks. Some of the major issues related to target tracking in wireless sensor network can be outlined as following. In these networks, energy, computing power, and communication bandwidth are scarce. Localization primarily refers to the detection of spatial coordinates of a node or an object.

We have considered a random heterogeneous wireless sensor network, which has several powerful nodes for data aggregationrelay and large number of energyconstrained sensor nodes. Security issues and challenges in wireless sensor networks. Abstracttarget tracking is one of the non trivial applications of wireless sensor network which is set up in the areas of field surveillance, habitat monitoring. Wireless sensor networks wsns are spatially scattered independent sensors to track physical objects or monitor environmental data and collectively transmit the data to master station.

We identify three different formulations for the target tracking problem and classify the target. Target localization and tracking in wireless sensor networks thesis submitted in partial ful. Markov decision processes with applications in wireless. Target tracking in wireless sensor networks, wireless sensor networks. A detailed discussion on design constraints and classi cation of routing pro. A comparative study of target tracking approaches in wireless. This paper for the first time contributes a survey of target tracking protocols for sensor networks and presents their classification in a precise manner. Targettracking algorithms typically organize the network into a logical structure e. Various approaches have been investigated for tracking the targets, considering diverse metrics like scalability, overheads, energy consumption and target tracking accuracy. Sensor networks, which consist of sensor nodes each capable of sensing environment and transmitting data, have lots of applications in battlefield surveillance, environmental monitoring, industrial diagnostics, etc. Sensing coverage is a fundamental problem in wireless sensor networks wsns, which has attracted considerable attention. Wireless sensor networks make use of a centralized approach.

A survey on target tracking in welldeployed wireless sensor networks shengnan li a. An improved cubature information filtering for target tracking in distributed wireless sensor networks with measurement outliers. Wireless sensor networks that consist of thousands of lowcost sensor nodes have been used in many promising applications such as health. A collaborative variationalmonte carlo scheme is proposed to solve the multi target tracking mtt problem in wireless sensor networks wsns. Target nodes are waken up to track the object, rather than waking the. A survey on energy efficient target tracking techniques in. Jennifer yick, biswanath mukherjee, dipak ghosal reported by jiang. Adaptive quantized target tracking in wireless sensor networks. The challenge for manufacturers, developers and service providers is keeping up with the technology advances, competing alternatives and market trends.

In this research work, a survey on wireless sensor networks wsn and their technologies, standards and applications was carried out. A survey of target tracking methods in wireless sensor networks. As the target tracking is an important application in wireless sensor networks the target tracking is more expensive and complexity is comparatively high. Coverage and connectivity issues in wireless sensor. Target tracking in noisy wireless sensor network using artificial neural network. Optimized communication and organization for target tracking in wireless sensor networks.

A survey on object tracking in wireless sensor networks for machine tool applications. A survey of target tracking methods in wireless sensor networks reshma. Proceedings of the sixth australasian information security conference aisc 2008. In this paper, we present a comprehensive survey of target tracking approaches. However, researchers must address a variety of challenges to facilitate the widespread deployment of wsn technology in realworld domains. The energy of nodes, communication computing and storage capability in wireless sensor networks are limited. The main characteristics of wsns are flexibility, maintainability, scalability, selfmonitoring, property of fault tolerance 24, 25, 26. A survey on target tracking in welldeployed wireless sensor.

Monitoring and algorithm is always executed at the base station and result is distributed to the sensor nodes. Due to the limited energy supplies of nodes in wireless sensor networks wsn, optimizing their design under energy constraints, reducing their communication. A survey on energy efficient techniques in wireless sensor. In treebased target tracking, nodes in a network may be organized in a hierarchical tree structure or represented as a graph. Survey of target tracking protocols using wireless sensor network abstract. A comparative study of target tracking approaches in.

Effective target tracking mechanism in a selforganizing. As the number of sensors rise in the network, more. In proceedings of the 4th international conference on mobile adhoc and sensor networks pp. Target tracking is an important application of the wireless sensor networks.

Secure data aggregation in wireless sensor network. Moving target detection and tracking in wireless sensor networks. Wireless sensor networks presents a comprehensive and tightly organized compilation of chapters that surveys many of the exciting research developments taking place in this field. Our survey identifies some open research problems which can be addressed for achieving energy efficient target tacking in wireless sensor networks. A survey on energy efficient target tracking in wireless. Thus, distributed sensing provides robustness to environmental obstacles. One important use of sensor networks is the tracking of a mobile target point source by the network. Target tracking is an important sensing application of wireless sensor networks. Mobile target tracking in wireless sensor networks has gained a lot of attention in the recent years due to the special characteristics of these wsns. A survey on target tracking in welldeployed wireless. There are two subproblems inherent to target tracking. Due to the limited energy resource of each sensor, how to enhance the accuracy of target tracking, meanwhile prolong the lifetime of the wireless sensor network is a problem. Earl wellsa a department of electrical and computer engineering, the university of alabama in huntsville, huntsville, al 35899, united states. An object tracking sensor network otsn is made of \m\ static wireless sensors scattered throughout a geographical area for tracking \n\ mobile targets.

A survey yawar abbas bangash, qamar ud din abid, alshreef abed ali a, yahya e. Improved clustering algorithms for target tracking in. A survey of localization in wireless sensor network long. The traditional target tracking methods for wireless sensor networks utilizes the centralized approach. Introduction wireless sensor networks wsns have gained worldwide attention in recent years, particularly. Recently, industrial wireless sensor networks have attracted more attention, due to their large benefits in terms of faster installation, cost savings, and flexibility. Even deploying a sensor with great line of sight, it could have obstructions. Doppler effect on target tracking in wireless sensor networks youngwon kim ana, seongmoo yooa. The rapid deployment, selforganization and fault tolerance characteristics of sensor networks make them a very promising sensing technique for military c4isrt. Citeseerx document details isaac councill, lee giles, pradeep teregowda. A survey on routing protocols for wireless sensor networks kemal akkaya, mohamed younis department of computer science and electrical engineering, university of maryland, baltimore county, baltimore, md 21250, usa.

Abstract wireless sensor networks wsns find its application in areas such as target detection and tracking, environmental monitoring, industrial process. Rui dinis, professor associado com agregacao, fctunl examination. A wireless sensor network wsn has important applications such as remote environmental monitoring and target tracking. Andrew yang university of houston clear lake 2700 bay area blvd. Pdf targettracking algorithms typically organize the network into a logical structure e. Generally, target tracking aims basically at estimating the location of the target while it is moving within an area of interest and consequently report it to the base station in a timely manner. Target tracking in wireless sensor networks 3 hierarchical category 1 wsns and peertopeer category 2 wsns. Abstractthis paper presents a survey on the mac and network layer of wireless sensor networks. The vertices in the structure represent sensor nodes and edges are links between nodes that can directly communicate with each other. Performance requirements of the mac layer are explored. In this work, we outline an approach to target tracking.

The differences between sensor networks and ad hoc networks are 4. A survey thakshila wimalajeewa, senior member, ieee and pramod k varshney, life fellow, ieee abstractin this survey paper, our goal is to discuss recent advances of compressive sensing cs based solutions in wireless sensor networks wsns including the. In many applications, the environment being monitored. In this work, we survey of the state of the art of target tracking techniques in sensor networks.

Target tracking is a typical and substantial application of wireless sensor networks. Zebranet system is a mobile wireless sensor network used to track animal migrations. Wireless sensor networks can be an integral part of military command, control, communications, computing, intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and targeting c4isrt systems. Keywords wireless sensor network, protocols, sensor network services, sensor network deployment, survey 1. In recent surge of interest in mobile sensor applications, in this paper studies the target tracking problem in a mobile sensor network msn. Handbook of research on wireless sensor network trends. In proceedings of the conference on sensor networks, ubiquitous, and trustworthy computing sutc06. The problem being tackled here relates to the problem of target tracking in wireless sensor networks. This has been enabled by the availability, particularly in recent years, of sensors that are smaller, cheaper, and intelligent. Visual sensor networks have emerged as an important class of sensor based distributed intelligent systems, with unique performance, complexity, and quality of service challenges.

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