Coverage-Based Sensor Association Rules for Wireless Vehicular Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks

Recently, Knowledge Discovery Process has proven to be a promising tool for extracting behavioral patterns regarding sensor nodes from wireless vehicular ad hoc and sensor networks. In this paper, we propose a new type of behavioral patterns, which we refer to as Coverage-based Rules, to discovers the correlation among the set of locations monitored by the network. Coverage- base Rules is an extension for a recent proposed behavioral patterns named as Sensor Association Rules. However, in contrast to Sensor Association Rules, Coverage-based Rules have been designed specifically for sensor networks that guarantee a k- coverage property for the area under monitoring. The major application of Coverage-based Rules is to predict the location of future events. This feature might prove to be quite useful in vehicular ad hoc and sensor network based applications. To report about the efficiency of our proposed scheme, an extensive set of simulation experiments have been conducted to compare the performance of the network during the data preparation process for Coverage-based and Sensor Association Rules schemes.