无线多媒体传感器网络研究

无线多媒体传感器网络(WMSNs)是在传统无线传感器网络(WSNs)的基础上发展起来的具有音频、视频、图像等多媒体信息感知功能的新型传感器网络,具有广阔的应用前景。该文介绍了WMSNs的概念,分析了WMSNs区别于传统WSNs的个性化特点。对节点系统、MAC协议、路由协议、多媒体信息处理等关键技术的国内外研究现状、面临的问题和可行的解决方案进行了深入探讨。最后对WMSNs亟待解决的问题和发展趋势进行了总结。     

Cache consistency in Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks

The production of cheap CMOS cameras, which are able to capture rich multimedia content, combined with the creation of low-power circuits, gave birth to what is called Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (WMSNs). WMSNs introduce several new research challenges, mainly related to mechanisms to deliver application-level Quality-of-Service (e.g., latency minimization). Such issues have almost completely been ignored in traditional WSNs, where the research focused on energy consumption minimization. Towards achieving this goal, the technique of cooperative caching multimedia content in sensor nodes can efficiently address the resource constraints, the variable channel capacity and the in-network processing challenges associated with WMSNs. The technological advances in gigabyte-storage flash memories make sensor caching to be the ideal solution for latency minimization. Though, with caching comes the issue of maintaining the freshness of cached contents. This article proposes a new cache consistency and replacement policy, called NICC, to address the cache consistency issues in a WMSN. The proposed policies recognize and exploit the mediator nodes that relay on the most “central” points in the sensor network so that they can forward messages with small latency. With the utilization of mediator nodes that lie between the source node and cache nodes, both push-based and pull-based strategies can be applied in order to minimize the query latency and the communication overhead. Simulation results attest that NICC outperforms the state-of-the-art cache consistency policy for MANETs.     

Cooperative Caching in Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks

The recent advances in miniaturization and the creation of low-power circuits, combined with small-sized batteries have made the development of wireless sensor networks a working reality. Lately, the production of cheap complementary metal-oxide semiconductor cameras and microphones, which are able to capture rich multimedia content, gave birth to what is called Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (WMSNs). WMSNs will boost the capabilities of current wireless sensor networks, and will fuel several novel applications, like multimedia surveillance sensor networks. WMSNs introduce several new research challenges, mainly related to mechanisms to deliver application-level Quality-of-Service (e.g., latency minimization). To address this goal in an environment with extreme resource constraints, with variable channel capacity and with requirements for multimedia in-network processing, the caching of multimedia data, exploiting the cooperation among sensor nodes is vital. This article presents a cooperative caching solution particularly suitable for WMSNs. The proposed caching solution exploits sensor nodes which reside in “positions” of the network that allow them to forward packets or communicate decisions within short latency. These so-called “mediator” nodes are selected dynamically, so as to avoid the creation of hot-spots in the communication and the depletion of their energy. The mediators are not more powerful than the rest of the nodes, but they have some special role in implementing the cooperation among the sensors. The proposed cooperative caching protocol includes components for locating cached data as well as for implementing data purging out of the sensor caches. The proposed solution is evaluated extensively in an advanced simulation environment, and it is compared to the state-of-the-art cooperative caching algorithm for mobile ad hoc networks. The results confirm that the proposed caching mechanism prevails over its competitor.     

无线多媒体传感器网络QoS保障问题

 作为一种全新的信息获取和处理技术,无线多媒体传感器网络在军事、工业、商业、环保中具有广阔的应用前景.无线多媒体传感器网络感知媒体丰富、数据量大,处理任务复杂等显著特点,使其QoS保障问题的研究极具挑战性.本文就此问题,总结了无线多媒体传感器网络的QoS需求及其当前所面临的技术挑战.从MAC层、网络层、传输层、应用层、交叉层以及中间件六个方面,着重描述了无线多媒体传感器网络QoS保障的国内外研究进展.最后,分析了当前亟待解决的问题以及未来的研究趋势.     

Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks: Applications and Testbeds

The availability of low-cost hardware is enabling the development of wireless multimedia sensor networks (WMSNs), i.e., networks of resource-constrained wireless devices that can retrieve multimedia content such as video and audio streams, still images, and scalar sensor data from the environment. In this paper, ongoing research on prototypes of multimedia sensors and their integration into testbeds for experimental evaluation of algorithms and protocols for WMSNs are described. Furthermore, open research issues and future research directions, both at the device level and at the testbed level, are discussed. This paper is intended to be a resource for researchers interested in advancing the state-of-the-art in experimental research on wireless multimedia sensor networks.      

无线多媒体传感器网络路由协议研究

传统的无线传感器网络(Wireless Sensor Networks,WSNs)路由协议不能很好地适应多媒体数据流的传输.近来,提出了一些无线多媒体传感器网络(Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks,WMSNs)路由协议.本文首先讲述了WMSNs服务质量保障路由问题及其面临的挑战,从五...     

一种面向无线多媒体传感器网络的分布式图像压缩算法

因为多媒体数据的高带宽要求,要传输传感器节点采集到的原始数据将会消耗大量的资源。文章提出了一种分布式图像压缩算法,该算法通过把压缩任务分配给其他节点来解决在能量受限的节点上处理能力不足的问题。此外,该算法把压缩任务分配给其他空闲节点能很好的延长网络的生存时间。     

Distributed Image Compression Algorithm in Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks

Because of the high bandwidth demands of multimedia data,the transmission of raw data collected at sensor nodes consumes a large amount of resources.Distributed image compression is proposed as a means of overcoming the computation and energy limitation of individual nodes by sharing the processing of tasks.In addition,it prolongs the overall lifetime of the network by assigning compression tasks to idle nodes.     

WSNs中基于密钥共享的安全路由

针对无线传感网络的安全路由,提出能效和安全多跳路由(ESMR)。ESMR路由通过密钥共享策略,提高路由防御恶意节点的性能。ESMR路由先依据节点的位置将网络划分不同区(Zone),在每个Zone内,依据邻居节点位置划分多个簇;然后,每个Zone的簇头向基站传输数据,并依据密钥共享策略对数据进行加密。仿真结果表明,相比于同类路由,提出的ESMR在网络寿命、吞吐量、能耗以及端到端时延方面的性能得到有效提高。     

异构多媒体传感器网络服务质量研究

随着异构无线多媒体传感器网络应用日益广泛,如何满足不同数据源的要求,为其提供区分服务,保证其服务质量成为研究热点问题。该文在引进区分队列服务算法的基础上,提出了解决方法。该方法通过设置分组生存时间来实现在标量节点能够及时可靠地向汇聚节点报告事件发生的前提下,保证实时分组优先转发。仿真实验显示,汇聚节点在规定时间内收到了足够多的事件相关标量分组,实时分组时延满足实时性要求。表明文中方法是正确有效的。     

无线多媒体传感器网络QoS区分 服务路由机制

 无线多媒体传感器网络中多种类型数据并存,服务质量需求各异,因此如何提供服务质量保障机制是无线多媒体传感器网络研究领域的重点问题.本文提出了一种基于角度的区分服务路由算法,在该算法中,网络节点将各自的邻居节点按其偏转角度进行分类,为不同需求的数据流选择不同的转发区域,并结合邻居节点的地理位置、单跳通信负载、剩余能量等信息完成各数据流的区分路由.仿真结果表明,该算法在多媒体数据流传输的延迟、抖动、丢包率以及能耗等性能上均要优于已有算法.     

Jitter Detection for Synchronization Control in Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks

Collaborative in-network processing operations in Wireless multimedia sensor networks （WMSNs） often require effective synchronization control. Extensive researches in the traditional networks mainly focus on the synchronization control with the buffer management in the receiver. However, for WMSNs, the chaotic transport channel and low bandwidth introduce serious jitter. Jitter degrades the timing relationship among packets in a single media stream and between packets from different media streams and, hence, creates multimedia synchronization problems. Moreover, too much jitter will also degrade the performance of the streaming buffer. By only employing the buffer management scheme in the receiver, we can hardly satisfy the synchronization requirement of the in-network processing. In this study, we propose an active jitter detection mechanism for the synchronization control in WMSNs. This mechanism will improve the quality of service in multimedia networking by discarding the jitter-corrupted packets immediately and balancing the delay and jitter actively. We implement the proposed scheme in the practical WMSNs platform. The experiment results show that our scheme can reduce the average packet jitter effectively and improve the synchronization controlling performance significantly.     

Routing Protocol for Heterogeneous Hierarchical Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks

Recently, wireless multimedia sensor networks (WMSNs) have emerged as one of the most important technologies, driven by the development of powerful multimedia device such as CMOS. WMSNs require several factors such as resource constraints, specific QoS, high bandwidth and so on. In this paper, we propose a hierarchical heterogeneous network model based routing protocol for WMSNs. In our proposal, proposed network model is classified into monitoring class, delivery class and aggregation class. Also we define two kinds of the routing path in order to ensure bandwidth and QoS. In simulation results, we illustrate the performance of our proposal.     

多媒体传感网中的频率同步研究

文中针对基于OFDM传输体制的多媒体传感网节点，提出了一种新的频偏估计算法。在频域，可以方便去除虚拟子载波上噪声的影响，提高性能，同时根据每个子载波的解调信噪比对各个子载波的估计结果，进行最大比加权平均，可以有效的克服频率选择性衰落的影响．采用信道的统计信息，本文提出了一种低复杂度，可实现的方法。算法的仿真结果表明本文提出的算法能有效的克服多径的影响，并且在性能上比时域估计和等增益平均的方法有较大的改进。     

无线多媒体传感器网络中的动态频谱分配技术研究

无线多媒体传感器网络(WMSNs)具有实时监控,收集和处理多媒体信息的功能,有广泛的应用前景。较之传统无线传感器网络,WMSNs无线传输多媒体信息需要更大带宽。然而,随着无线通信设备的广泛应用,有限的可用频谱资源日益匮乏。利用动态频谱分配技术,可以扩展WMSNs的通信频段,增强抗干扰能力。考虑到WMSNs节点的物理限制,如计算能力和能量供应,该文提出了适合WMSNs的频谱感知方法和频谱管理方法。频谱感知采用各节点的轮换机制感知整个频段;频谱管理可以确保对授权用户影响最小的信道被首先使用。WMSNs使用上述方法可以感知周围无线电环境,利用空闲私有频段进行无线通信。最后,通过实验证明了该文提出的动态频谱分配技术对WMSNs的有效性。     

Performance of Transport Protocols for Multimedia Communications in Wireless Sensor Networks

Many wireless sensor network (WSN) applications require efficient multimedia communication capabilities. However, the existing communication protocols in the literature mainly aim to achieve energy efficiency and reliability objectives and do not address multimedia communication challenges in WSN. In this paper, comprehensive performance evaluation of the existing transport protocols is performed for multimedia communication in WSN. Performance metrics such as packet delivery rate, end-to-end packet delay, bandwidth and energy efficiency, frame peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR), delay-bounded frame PSNR, frame delivery probability, frame end-to-end delay and jitter are investigated. The results clearly show that the existing transport protocols are far from satisfying the requirements of multimedia communication in WSN and hence there is a need for new effective multimedia delivery protocols for WSN.     

基于分簇的无线多媒体传感器网络数据聚合方案研究

该文提出了一种基于分簇的无线多媒体传感器网络(WMSNs)数据聚合方案(Cluster-based Data Aggregation Algorithm, CDAA)。利用新的分簇方法和数据聚合策略,CDAA可以有效延长网络生命期。根据多媒体节点数据采集的方向性和节点剩余能耗,该文提出新的无线多媒体传感器网络的分簇方法,并基于该分簇方法进行网内多媒体数据聚合。仿真结果表明,该方法能够有效减少冗余数据的传送,与LEACH, PEGASIS等传统WSNs路由协议和针对WMSNs的AntSensNet协议相比,在能耗均衡和节能方面表现出更好的性能。     

Power Efficient Video Multipath Transmission over Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks

This paper proposes a power efficient multipath video packet scheduling scheme for minimum video distortion transmission (optimised Video QoS) over wireless multimedia sensor networks. The transmission of video packets over multiple paths in a wireless sensor network improves the aggregate data rate of the network and minimizes the traffic load handled by each node. However, due to the lossy behavior of the wireless channel the aggregate transmission rate cannot always support the requested video source data rate. In such cases a packet scheduling algorithm is applied that can selectively drop combinations of video packets prior to transmission to adapt the source requirements to the channel capacity. The scheduling algorithm selects the less important video packets to drop using a recursive distortion prediction model. This model predicts accurately the resulting video distortion in case of isolated errors, burst of errors and errors separated by a lag. Two scheduling algorithms are proposed in this paper. The Baseline scheme is a simplified scheduler that can only decide upon which packet can be dropped prior to transmission based on the packet’s impact on the video distortion. This algorithm is compared against the Power aware packet scheduling that is an extension of the Baseline capable of estimating the power that will be consumed by each node in every available path depending on its traffic load, during the transmission. The proposed Power aware packet scheduling is able to identify the available paths connecting the video source to the receiver and schedule the packet transmission among the selected paths according to the perceived video QoS (Peak Signal to Noise Ratio—PSNR) and the energy efficiency of the participating wireless video sensor nodes, by dropping packets if necessary based on the distortion prediction model. The simulation results indicate that the proposed Power aware video packet scheduling can achieve energy efficiency in the wireless multimedia sensor network by minimizing the power dissipation across all nodes, while the perceived video quality is kept to very high levels even at extreme network conditions (many sensor nodes dropped due to power consumption and high background noise in the channel).     

Equal Size Clusters to Reduce Congestion in Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks

Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (WMSNs) are a particular instance of Wireless Sensor Networks that support the transmission of multimedia data such as video, image or sound. Those multimedia data should be delivered with a variety of predefined levels of Quality of Service swhich imposes the development of specific routing protocols. In this paper, we propose a new routing protocol based on clustering, that balances the number of nodes in clusters, called Equal Size Clusters to reduce Congestion in WMSNs. We seek to balance the number of members in each cluster in order to reduce intra-cluster congestion and reduce the number of congested cluster-heads. Therefore, we propose a novel metric called Maximum Cluster-heads Utilization Ratio (MCUR) that indicates the largest number of members assigned to a cluster-head to ensure a reliable transmission of multimedia data. Simulation results indicate that our proposed scheme outperforms other protocols proposed in the literature in terms of MCUR, number of cluster-heads and energy consumed.