Impact of physical layer design on the deployment of a sensor network with correlated observations

Author

Banerjee, T. ; Kherani, A.A. ; Debbah, M. ; Roumy, A.

Author_Institution

Indian Inst. of Sci. Delhi, Delhi

fYear

2007

fDate

17-20 June 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

We consider a sensor network which observes a spatially correlated random field. The Slepian-Wolf scheme is known to help reduce the transmission requirement in such a scenario. We seek a "good" operating point for this network, in order to maximize the information gathered with a constraint on the network budget (which includes the number of nodes and their transmission powers). We present a comparative study of the system performance obtained under various transmission/reception schemes and fading coefficient statistics. Finally, we study the optimal density of the sensor network.

Keywords

telecommunication network routing; wireless sensor networks; Slepian-Wolf scheme; correlated observations; fading coefficient statistics; physical layer design; reception schemes; sensor network; transmission schemes; Costs; Entropy; Fading; Multiaccess communication; Physical layer; Sensor fusion; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Source coding; Statistical distributions; Temperature sensors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications, 2007. SPAWC 2007. IEEE 8th Workshop on

Conference_Location

Helsinki

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0955-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0955-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SPAWC.2007.4401417

Filename

4401417