Effective Resource Management in Visual Sensor Networks With MPSK

The problem of resource management in a Direct Sequence Code Division Multiple Access (DS-CDMA) wireless Visual Sensor Network (VSN) with M-array Phase Shift Keying (MPSK) modulation in an Additive White Gaussian Network (AWGN) channel was considered in this paper. Achieving maximum video quality, in spite of the prevailing network resource constraints, is of utmost importance in VSN applications. Our optimization scheme is based on the Nash Bargaining Solution (NBS). The nodes in the network negotiate in order to determine their transmission parameters (transmission powers; source and channel coding rates for each node). The task is to optimize the transmission powers (which are continuous) and the source and channel coding rates (which are discrete) for all the network nodes, while taking advantage of the improved bandwidth spectral efficiency provided by the higher order constellation.