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Energy Efficiency in Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networking: Architecture, Management and Security

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Greening Video Distribution Networks

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Wireless multimedia sensor network (WMSN) is a recently emerged concept of interconnected devices that are able to capture and deliver multimedia content. In contrast to traditional wireless sensor networks (WSN), the provided content may include video and audio streams and still images in addition to traditional scalar data such as temperature, humidity or light intensity. One of the core requirements for WSNs is energy efficiency: for maintenance reasons, the battery life must be long enough to provide feasible maintenance interval, rather months or years than days or weeks. The requirement is elaborated in WMSNs where video and audio capturing nodes inherently consume more energy than traditional scalar sensor nodes while the battery life requirements remain high. However, current technology base of video and audio surveillance does not enable sufficient energy-saving features to support ultra-low-energy multimedia sensor networking. In this chapter, we present a set of optimization methods to make WMSNs more energy efficient. The methods include energy-efficient hardware architectures combined with energy-optimized network topology management, lightweight virtualization and lightweight security solutions. The optimization methods are evaluated using real-life prototype implementations. The results provide an insight into effective methods for implementing energy-efficient WMSN.

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This work was supported by TEKES and by the European Celtic-Plus Project CONVINcE, which was partially funded by Finland, France, Sweden and Turkey.

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    Erkki Harjula, Tenager Mekonnen, Pawani Porambage & Mika Ylianttila

  2. Ericsson Research, NomadicLab, Jorvas, Finland

    Miika Komu, Tero Kauppinen & Jimmy Kjällman

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Harjula, E. et al. (2018). Energy Efficiency in Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networking: Architecture, Management and Security. In: Popescu, A. (eds) Greening Video Distribution Networks. Computer Communications and Networks. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71718-0_7

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