Uncertainty in Wireless Sensor Networks
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Uncertainty in Wireless Sensor Networks
Wang-Chien LeePennsylvania State University
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Motivating WSN Applications• Habitat monitoring• Military surveillance• Intelligent transportation system• Human healthcare system• Food quality monitoring• …
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Uncertainty in WSN Applications• Uncertainty is a major issue in WSN applications
– Uncertainty is inherent from nature – difficult to predict
– Uncertainty is often caused by our limited ability in capturing the reality
• Three Aspects of Uncertainty in WSN – Communication uncertainty– Sensing uncertainty– Data uncertainty
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Communication Uncertainty
• Asymmetric wireless links• Unreliable link quality• Intermittent connections
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Sensing Uncertainty
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Data UncertaintySensor Time per
sample(ms)Error rate
Solar Radiation 500 35%Barometric Pressure 35 1.5mbarBarometric Pressure Temp 35 0.8KHumidity 333 2%Accelerometer 0.9 200 µg
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Possible values
Limits in sensing devices
Limits in information extraction techniques
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Challenges
• Uncertainty modeling in link quality• Uncertainty modeling in network connectivity• Probabilistic routing• Sensing coverage• Uncertain data management• In-network probabilistic query processing