Robust scheduling of wireless sensor networks for target tracking under uncertainty

•This paper addresses a target tracking robustness problem in Wireless Sensor Networks.•A maximum stability radius schedule is computed with a pseudo-polynomial algorithm.•Two classes of upper bounds are exploited to speed up convergence.•Large problem instances with up to 1000 sensors can be solved...

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Published in:European journal of operational research Vol. 252; no. 2; pp. 407 - 417
Main Authors: Lersteau, Charly, Rossi, André, Sevaux, Marc
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam Elsevier B.V 16.07.2016
Elsevier Sequoia S.A
Elsevier
Subjects:
Computer Science
Construction
Detection
Energy efficiency
Linear programming
Moving targets
Operations Research
Remote sensors
Robustness
Scheduling
Scheduling algorithms
Sensors
Stability radius
Studies
Target tracking
Tracking
Tracking control systems
Uncertainty
Wireless networks
Wireless sensor networks
Wireless sensor networks
Target tracking
Uncertainty
Robustness
Stability radius
robustness
wireless sensor networks
stability radius
uncertainty
target tracking
ISSN:0377-2217, 1872-6860
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Summary:•This paper addresses a target tracking robustness problem in Wireless Sensor Networks.•A maximum stability radius schedule is computed with a pseudo-polynomial algorithm.•Two classes of upper bounds are exploited to speed up convergence.•Large problem instances with up to 1000 sensors can be solved in less than 20 seconds. An object tracking sensor network (OTSN) is a wireless sensor network designed to track moving objects in its sensing area. It is made of static sensors deployed in a region for tracking moving targets. Usually, these sensors are equipped of a sensing unit and a non-rechargeable battery. The investigated mission involves a moving target with a known trajectory, such as a train on a railway or a plane in an airline route. In order to save energy, the target must be monitored by exactly one sensor at any time. In our context, the sensors may be not accessible during the mission and the target can be subject to earliness or tardiness. Therefore, our aim is to build a static schedule of sensing activities that resists to these perturbations. A pseudo-polynomial two-step algorithm is proposed. First, a discretization step processes the input data, and a mathematical formulation of the scheduling problem is proposed. Then, a dichotomy approach that solves a transportation problem at every iteration is introduced; the very last step is addressed by solving a linear program.
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ISSN:0377-2217
1872-6860
DOI:10.1016/j.ejor.2016.01.018