Spatial Field Reconstruction and Sensor Selection in Heterogeneous Sensor Networks With Stochastic Energy Harvesting

DOI10.1109/TSP.2018.2802452zbMATH Open1415.94300arXiv1801.05356OpenAlexW2783021959MaRDI QIDQ4622112FDOQ4622112

Authors: Pengfei Zhang, Ido Nevat, Gareth W. Peters, François Septier, Michael A. Osborne 

Publication date: 12 February 2019

Published in: IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We address the two fundamental problems of spatial field reconstruction and sensor selection in het- erogeneous sensor networks. We consider the case where two types of sensors are deployed: the first consists of expensive, high quality sensors; and the second, of cheap low quality sensors, which are activated only if the intensity of the spatial field exceeds a pre-defined activation threshold (eg. wind sensors). In addition, these sensors are powered by means of energy harvesting and their time varying energy status impacts on the accuracy of the measurement that may be obtained. We account for this phenomenon by encoding the energy harvesting process into the second moment properties of the additive noise, resulting in a spatial heteroscedastic process. We then address the following two important problems: (i) how to efficiently perform spatial field reconstruction based on measurements obtained simultaneously from both networks; and (ii) how to perform query based sensor set selection with predictive MSE performance guarantee. We first show that the resulting predictive posterior distribution, which is key in fusing such disparate observations, involves solving intractable integrals. To overcome this problem, we solve the first problem by developing a low complexity algorithm based on the spatial best linear unbiased estimator (S-BLUE). Next, building on the S-BLUE, we address the second problem, and develop an efficient algorithm for query based sensor set selection with performance guarantee. Our algorithm is based on the Cross Entropy method which solves the combinatorial optimization problem in an efficient manner. We present a comprehensive study of the performance gain that can be obtained by augmenting the high-quality sensors with low-quality sensors using both synthetic and real insurance storm surge database known as the Extreme Wind Storms Catalogue.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.05356

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Signal theory (characterization, reconstruction, filtering, etc.) (94A12)

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• Binary spatial random field reconstruction from non-Gaussian inhomogeneous time-series observations
• Distributed Field Reconstruction in Wireless Sensor Networks Based on Hybrid Shift-Invariant Spaces
• Estimation of Spatially Correlated Random Fields in Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks

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