scholarly journals Autonomic Context-Aware Wireless Sensor Networks

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nídia G. S. Campos ◽  
Danielo G. Gomes ◽  
Flávia C. Delicato ◽  
Augusto J. V. Neto ◽  
Luci Pirmez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Autonomic Computing ◽  
Information Overload ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Sensor Data ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Context Server

Autonomic Computing allows systems like wireless sensor networks (WSN) to self-manage computing resources in order to extend their autonomy as much as possible. In addition, contextualization tasks can fuse two or more different sensor data into a more meaningful information. Since these tasks usually run in a single centralized context server (e.g., sink node), the massive volume of data generated by the wireless sensors can lead to a huge information overload in such server. Here we propose DAIM, a distributed autonomic inference machine distributed which allows the sensor nodes to do self-management and contextualization tasks based on fuzzy logic. We have evaluated DAIM in a real sensor network taking into account other inference machines. Experimental results illustrate that DAIM is an energy-efficient contextualization method for WSN, reducing 48.8% of the number of messages sent to the context servers while saving 19.5% of the total amount of energy spent in the network.

scholarly journals Anomaly Detection in Medical Wireless Sensor Networks using SVM and Linear Regression Models

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Osman Salem ◽  
Alexey Guerassimov ◽  
Ahmed Mehaoua ◽  
Anthony Marcus ◽  
Borko Furht
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Anomaly Detection ◽  
Patient Data ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Sensor Data ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Smart Devices ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Processing Unit

This paper details the architecture and describes the preliminary experimentation with the proposed framework for anomaly detection in medical wireless body area networks for ubiquitous patient and healthcare monitoring. The architecture integrates novel data mining and machine learning algorithms with modern sensor fusion techniques. Knowing wireless sensor networks are prone to failures resulting from their limitations (i.e. limited energy resources and computational power), using this framework, the authors can distinguish between irregular variations in the physiological parameters of the monitored patient and faulty sensor data, to ensure reliable operations and real time global monitoring from smart devices. Sensor nodes are used to measure characteristics of the patient and the sensed data is stored on the local processing unit. Authorized users may access this patient data remotely as long as they maintain connectivity with their application enabled smart device. Anomalous or faulty measurement data resulting from damaged sensor nodes or caused by malicious external parties may lead to misdiagnosis or even death for patients. The authors' application uses a Support Vector Machine to classify abnormal instances in the incoming sensor data. If found, the authors apply a periodically rebuilt, regressive prediction model to the abnormal instance and determine if the patient is entering a critical state or if a sensor is reporting faulty readings. Using real patient data in our experiments, the results validate the robustness of our proposed framework. The authors further discuss the experimental analysis with the proposed approach which shows that it is quickly able to identify sensor anomalies and compared with several other algorithms, it maintains a higher true positive and lower false negative rate.

scholarly journals Time-selective data fusion for in-network processing in ad hoc wireless sensor networks

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (11) ◽  
pp. 155014771881130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaanus Kaugerand ◽  
Johannes Ehala ◽  
Leo Mõtus ◽  
Jürgo-Sören Preden
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Data Fusion ◽  
Data Streams ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Sensor Data ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Temporal Consistency ◽  
Variable Delays

This article introduces a time-selective strategy for enhancing temporal consistency of input data for multi-sensor data fusion for in-network data processing in ad hoc wireless sensor networks. Detecting and handling complex time-variable (real-time) situations require methodical consideration of temporal aspects, especially in ad hoc wireless sensor network with distributed asynchronous and autonomous nodes. For example, assigning processing intervals of network nodes, defining validity and simultaneity requirements for data items, determining the size of memory required for buffering the data streams produced by ad hoc nodes and other relevant aspects. The data streams produced periodically and sometimes intermittently by sensor nodes arrive to the fusion nodes with variable delays, which results in sporadic temporal order of inputs. Using data from individual nodes in the order of arrival (i.e. freshest data first) does not, in all cases, yield the optimal results in terms of data temporal consistency and fusion accuracy. We propose time-selective data fusion strategy, which combines temporal alignment, temporal constraints and a method for computing delay of sensor readings, to allow fusion node to select the temporally compatible data from received streams. A real-world experiment (moving vehicles in urban environment) for validation of the strategy demonstrates significant improvement of the accuracy of fusion results.

Applications of Wireless Sensor Networks

2010 ◽  
pp. 1076-1090 ◽  
Author(s):  
Corinna Schmitt ◽  
Georg Carle
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Sensor Data ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Radio Communication ◽  
Power Resources ◽  
Limited Power

Today the researchers want to collect as much data as possible from different locations for monitoring reasons. In this context large-scale wireless sensor networks are becoming an active topic of research (Kahn1999). Because of the different locations and environments in which these sensor networks can be used, specific requirements for the hardware apply. The hardware of the sensor nodes must be robust, provide sufficient storage and communication capabilities, and get along with limited power resources. Sensor nodes such as the Berkeley-Mote Family (Polastre2006, Schmitt2006) are capable of meeting these requirements. These sensor nodes are small and light devices with radio communication and the capability for collecting sensor data. In this chapter the authors review the key elements for sensor networks and give an overview on possible applications in the field of monitoring.

Sensor Data Geographic Forwarding in Two-Dimensional and Three-Dimensional Spaces

2017 ◽  
pp. 317-352
Author(s):  
Habib M. Ammari ◽  
Amer Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Geographic Routing ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Sensor Data ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Geographic Forwarding ◽  
Limited Power

A wireless sensor network is a collection of sensor nodes that have the ability to sense phenomena in a given environment and collect data, perform computation on the gathered data, and transmit (or forward) it to their destination. Unfortunately, these sensor nodes have limited power, computational, and storage capabilities. These factors have an influence on the design of wireless sensor networks and make it more challenging. In order to overcome these limitations, various power management techniques and energy-efficient protocols have been designed. Among such techniques and protocols, geographic routing is one of the most efficient ways to solve some of the design issues. Geographic routing in wireless sensor networks uses location information of the sensor nodes to define a path from source to destination without having to build a network topology. In this paper, we present a survey of the existing geographic routing techniques both in two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) spaces. Furthermore, we will study the advantages of each routing technique and provide a discussion based on their practical possibility of deployment.

scholarly journals Anomaly Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks: A Proposed Framework

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (10) ◽  
pp. 150
Author(s):  
Dina M. Ibrahim ◽  
Nada M. Alruhaily
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Intrusion Detection ◽  
Detection System ◽  
Denial Of Service ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Base Stations ◽  
Sensor Data ◽  
Wireless Sensor

With the rise of IOT devices and the systems connected to the internet, there was, accordingly, an ever-increasing number of network attacks (e.g. in DOS, DDOS attacks). A very significant research problem related to identifying Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) attacks and the analysis of the sensor data is the detection of the relevant anomalies. In this paper, we propose a framework for intrusion detection system in WSN. The first two levels are located inside the WSN, one of them is between sensor nodes and the second is between the cluster heads. While the third level located on the cloud, and represented by the base stations. In the first level, which we called light mode, we simulated an intrusion traffic by generating data packets based on TCPDUMP data, which contain intrusion packets, our work, is done by using WSN technology. We used OPNET simulation for generating the traffic because it allows us to collect intrusion detection data in order to measure the network performance and efficiency of the simulated network scenarios. Finally, we report the experimental results by mimicking a Denial-of-Service (DOS) attack. <em> </em>

scholarly journals Anomaly Detection in Medical Wireless Sensor Networks using SVM and Linear Regression Models

2016 ◽  
pp. 466-486 ◽  
Author(s):  
Osman Salem ◽  
Alexey Guerassimov ◽  
Ahmed Mehaoua ◽  
Anthony Marcus ◽  
Borko Furht
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Anomaly Detection ◽  
False Negative ◽  
Patient Data ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Sensor Data ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Smart Device

This paper details the architecture and describes the preliminary experimentation with the proposed framework for anomaly detection in medical wireless body area networks for ubiquitous patient and healthcare monitoring. The architecture integrates novel data mining and machine learning algorithms with modern sensor fusion techniques. Knowing wireless sensor networks are prone to failures resulting from their limitations (i.e. limited energy resources and computational power), using this framework, the authors can distinguish between irregular variations in the physiological parameters of the monitored patient and faulty sensor data, to ensure reliable operations and real time global monitoring from smart devices. Sensor nodes are used to measure characteristics of the patient and the sensed data is stored on the local processing unit. Authorized users may access this patient data remotely as long as they maintain connectivity with their application enabled smart device. Anomalous or faulty measurement data resulting from damaged sensor nodes or caused by malicious external parties may lead to misdiagnosis or even death for patients. The authors' application uses a Support Vector Machine to classify abnormal instances in the incoming sensor data. If found, the authors apply a periodically rebuilt, regressive prediction model to the abnormal instance and determine if the patient is entering a critical state or if a sensor is reporting faulty readings. Using real patient data in our experiments, the results validate the robustness of our proposed framework. The authors further discuss the experimental analysis with the proposed approach which shows that it is quickly able to identify sensor anomalies and compared with several other algorithms, it maintains a higher true positive and lower false negative rate.

scholarly journals EGCIR: Energy-Aware Graph Clustering and Intelligent Routing Using Supervised System in Wireless Sensor Networks

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (16) ◽  
pp. 4072
Author(s):  
Tanzila Saba ◽  
Khalid Haseeb ◽  
Ikram Ud Din ◽  
Ahmad Almogren ◽  
Ayman Altameem ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Graph Clustering ◽  
Base Station ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Sensor Data ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Energy Aware ◽  
Intelligent Routing

In recent times, the field of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) has attained a growing popularity in observing the environment due to its dynamic factors. Sensor data are gathered and forwarded to the base station (BS) through a wireless transmission medium. The data from the BS is further distributed to end-users using the Internet for their post analysis and operations. However, all sensors except the BS have limited constraints in terms of memory, energy and computational resources that degrade the network performance concerning the network lifetime and trustworthy routing. Therefore, improving energy efficiency with reliable and secure transmissions is a valuable debate among researchers for critical applications based on low-powered sensor nodes. In addition, security plays a significant cause to achieve responsible communications among sensors due to their unfixed and variable infrastructures. Keeping in view the above-mentioned issues, this paper presents an energy-aware graph clustering and intelligent routing (EGCIR) using a supervised system for WSNs to balance the energy consumption and load distribution. Moreover, a secure and efficient key distribution in a hierarchy-based mechanism is adopted by the proposed solution to improve the network efficacy in terms of routes and links integrity. The experimental results demonstrated that the EGCIR protocol enhances the network throughput by an average of 14%, packet drop ratio by an average of 50%, energy consumption by an average of 13%, data latency by an average of 30.2% and data breaches by an average of 37.5% than other state-of-the-art protocols.

MONet

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 345-369
Author(s):  
Kamel Barka ◽  
Azeddine Bilami ◽  
Samir Gourdache
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Power Efficiency ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Sensor Data ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Multi Objective Optimization ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Multi Objective ◽  
Trade Offs

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to ensure power efficiency in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) through a new framework-oriented middleware, based on a biologically inspired mechanism that uses an evolutionary multi-objective optimization algorithm. The authors call this middleware framework multi-objective optimization for wireless sensor networks (MONet). Design/methodology/approach In MONet, the middleware level of each network node autonomously adjusts its routing parameters according to dynamic network conditions and seeks optimal trade-offs among performance objectives for a balance of its global performance. MONet controls the cooperation between agents (network nodes) while varying transmission paths to reduce and distribute power consumption equitably on all the sensor nodes of network. MONet-runtime uses a modified TinyDDS middleware platform. Findings Simulation results confirm that MONet allows power efficiency to WSN nodes while adapting their sleep periods and self-heal false-positive sensor data. Originality/value The framework implementation is lightweight and efficient enough to run on resource-limited nodes such as sensor nodes.

A New Spread Spectrum Based Approach for Ensuring Energy Efficiency and Security in Wireless Sensor Networks

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 45-57
Author(s):  
Nejla Rouissi ◽  
Hamza Gharsellaoui ◽  
Sadok Bouamama
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Spread Spectrum ◽  
Data Communication ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Sensor Data ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Rich Information

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) play a central role in the Internet of Things (IoT). It consists of small-size sensor nodes connected to the internet through gateways providing content rich information. So, the traffic transmission between sensor nodes over radio links requires highly bandwidth and needs to ensure the reliability of the data. Therefore, providing safe communications of sensor data over wireless communication channel plays an essential role. Thus, the important issue on wireless sensor networks is to find an optimal schema that ensuring energy efficiency together with the security. In contrast, implementing traditional cryptographic algorithms is not very well suited for WSNs nodes. In this article, a novel combination of spread spectrum into watermarking scheme is presented. This watermarking schema based on direct-frequency-time spread spectrum secures data communication against jamming and falsification to ensure data integrity and increases resistance to interference at the same time ensures the energy efficiency.

scholarly journals Towards a context-aware Wireless Sensor Networks

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 1869
Author(s):  
Zineb Aarab ◽  
Asmae El Ghazi ◽  
Rajaa Saidi ◽  
Moulay Driss Rahmani
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Research Issues ◽  
Model Driven ◽  
Self Organized ◽  
Complicated Process ◽  
Application Developers

Recently, the development of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is spreading rapidly. WSNs are highly distributed self-organized systems which comprise a large number of resource constrained sensor nodes. Developers of WSNs face many challenges from communication, memory, limited energy… Also, mobility has become a major concern for WSN researchers. Indeed, Mobile WSNs (MWSN) consist of mobile sensor nodes that can move on their own and also interact with the physical environment. Developing applications for MWSN is a complicated process because of the wide variety of WSN applications and low-level implementation details. Integrating context-awareness can improve MWSN applications results. In this paper, some research issues and challenges involved in the design of WSNs are presented. Model-Driven Engineering offers an effective solution to WSN application developers by hiding the details of lower layers and raising the level of abstraction. In this sense, we propose a context-aware WSN architecture and WSN metamodel to ease the work for developers in this field. 

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