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Distributed Active Sensor Scheduling for Target Tracking in Ultrasonic Sensor Networks

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Active ultrasonic sensors for target tracking application may suffer from inter-sensor-interference if these highly dense deployed sensors are not scheduled, which can degrade the tracking performance. In this paper, we propose a dynamic distributed sensor scheduling (DSS) scheme, where the tasking sensor is elected spontaneously from the sensors with pending sensing tasks via random competition based on Carrier Sense Multiple Access (CSMA). The channel will be released immediately when sensing task is completed. Both simulation results and testbed experiment demonstrate the effectiveness of DSS scheme for large scale sensor networks in terms of system scalability and high tracking performance.

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The research is supported in part by NSFC-Guangdong joint Project grant no. U0735003; NSFC grant nos. 60736021 and 60974122; and Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. R1100324.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Industrial Control Technology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China

    Fan Zhang, Jiming Chen, Hongbin Li & Youxian Sun

  2. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, N2L 3G1, Canada

    Xuemin (Sherman) Shen

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Part of this paper was presented at ChinaCom’10, Beijing, China, Aug. 2010 [1].

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Zhang, F., Chen, J., Li, H. et al. Distributed Active Sensor Scheduling for Target Tracking in Ultrasonic Sensor Networks. Mobile Netw Appl 17, 582–593 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-011-0311-9

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