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On Asymmetric Distributed Source Coding For Wireless Sensor Networks

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Title On Asymmetric Distributed Source Coding For Wireless Sensor Networks
 
Creator Samar, *
 
Subject Wireless Networks - Distributed Coding
Wireless Sensor Networks
Communication Protocols
Data-gathering Sensor Networks
Information Ambiguity
Distributed Source Coding (DSC)
Asymmetric Communication
Interactive Communication
Parallel Communication
Serial Communication
Multiple Informants - Single Recipient (MISR)
Sensor Networks
Communication Engineering
 
Description We are concerned with addressing the worst-case distributed source coding (DSC) problem in asymmetric and interactive communication scenarios and its application to data-gathering wireless sensor networks in enhancing their lifetime.
First, we propose a unified canonical framework, obtained by considering different communication constraints and objectives, to address the variants of DSC problem. Second, as for the worst-case information-theoretic analysis, the notion of information entropy cannot be used, we propose information ambiguity, derive its various properties, and prove that it is a valid information measure. Third, for a few variants of our interest of DSC problem, we provide the communication protocols and prove their optimality.
In a typical data-gathering sensor network, the base-station that wants to gather sensor data is often assumed to be much more resourceful with respect to energy, computation, and communication capabilities compared to sensor nodes. Therefore, we argue that in such networks, the base-station should bear the most of the burden of communication and computation in the network. Allowing the base-station and sensor nodes to interactively communicate with each other enables us to carry this out. Our definition of sensor network lifetime allows us to reduce the problem of maximizing the worst-case network lifetime to the problem of minimizing the number of bits communicated by the nodes in the worst-case, which is further reduced to the worst-case DSC problem in asymmetric and interactive communication scenarios, with the assumption that the base-station knows the support-set of sensor data. We demonstrate that the optimal solutions of the energy-oblivious DSC problem variants cannot be directly applied to the data-gathering sensor networks, as those may be inefficient in the energy-constrained sensor networks. We address a few energy-efficient variants of DSC problem and provide optimal communication protocols for the sensor networks, based on those variants. Finally, we combine distributed source coding with two other system level opportunities of channel coding and cooperative nature of the nodes to further enhance the lifetime of the sensor networks. We address various scenarios and demonstrate the dependence of the computational complexity of the network lifetime maximization problem on the complex interplay of above system-level opportunities.
 
Contributor Jamadagni, H S
 
Date 2011-01-19T07:05:51Z
2011-01-19T07:05:51Z
2011-01-19
2009-12
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier http://hdl.handle.net/2005/1011
 
Language en_US
 
Relation G23523