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Self-organising Sensors for Wide Area Surveillance Using the Max-sum Algorithm

Self-organising Sensors for Wide Area Surveillance Using the Max-sum Algorithm
Self-organising Sensors for Wide Area Surveillance Using the Max-sum Algorithm
In this paper, we consider the self-organisation of sensors within a network deployed for wide area surveillance. We present a decentralised coordination algorithm based upon the max-sum algorithm and demonstrate how self-organisation can be achieved within a setting where sensors are deployed with no a priori information regarding their local environment. These energy-constrained sensors first learn how their actions interact with those of neighbouring sensors, and then use the max-sum algorithm to coordinate their sense/sleep schedules in order to maximise the effectiveness of the sensor network as a whole. In a simulation we show that this approach yields a 30% reduction in the number of vehicles that the sensor network fails to detect (compared to an uncoordinated network), and this performance is close to that achieved by a benchmark centralised optimisation algorithm (simulated annealing).
84-100
Springer
Rogers, Alex
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Farinelli, Alessandro
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Jennings, Nick
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Weyns, Danny
Malek, Sam
de Lemos, Rogério
Rogers, Alex
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Farinelli, Alessandro
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Rogers, Alex, Farinelli, Alessandro and Jennings, Nick (2010) Self-organising Sensors for Wide Area Surveillance Using the Max-sum Algorithm. In, Weyns, Danny, Malek, Sam and de Lemos, Rogério (eds.) LNCS 6090 Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Self-Organizing Architectures. Springer, pp. 84-100.

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Abstract

In this paper, we consider the self-organisation of sensors within a network deployed for wide area surveillance. We present a decentralised coordination algorithm based upon the max-sum algorithm and demonstrate how self-organisation can be achieved within a setting where sensors are deployed with no a priori information regarding their local environment. These energy-constrained sensors first learn how their actions interact with those of neighbouring sensors, and then use the max-sum algorithm to coordinate their sense/sleep schedules in order to maximise the effectiveness of the sensor network as a whole. In a simulation we show that this approach yields a 30% reduction in the number of vehicles that the sensor network fails to detect (compared to an uncoordinated network), and this performance is close to that achieved by a benchmark centralised optimisation algorithm (simulated annealing).

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Published date: 2010
Organisations: Agents, Interactions & Complexity

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Local EPrints ID: 271579
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/271579
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Date deposited: 22 Sep 2010 12:19
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 09:34

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Author: Alex Rogers
Author: Alessandro Farinelli
Author: Nick Jennings
Editor: Danny Weyns
Editor: Sam Malek
Editor: Rogério de Lemos

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