Event Boundary Detection Using Autonomous Agents in a Sensor Network

A novel approach to event boundary detection is proposed, where autonomous agents are deployed in order to minimize the number of transmissions required to discover an event boundary. The goal of the algorithm is to localize node transmission along the event boundary, since the sensory data from nodes not along the boundary is not required for event boundary detection. Simulations demonstrate that the algorithm has a linear efficiency function when related to event radius of sufficient size and further demonstrates that the boundary of an event may be successfully mapped using agents.