New Developments of Characteristic Analysis in Wireless Sensor Networks

ABSTRACT

As a completely new information acquisition and processing technology, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) has extensive application prospects in environmental monitoring, target tracking, intelligent transportation, intrusion detection, and so on. In these applications, when receiving the monitoring information, in many cases, one should know the location information of WSN sensor nodes. However, no matter which localization method one adopts, the rapid and accurate characteristic extraction is always one of the key techniques of WSNs. In this paper, we will explore a new characteristic extraction technology in WSNs. By separately computing the scores of related dimensions, we can obtain the final comprehensive information characteristic of all nodes. All of the characteristic analysis results are precise and credible.

Keywords:

• characteristic analysis
• Gaussian noise
• inertia
• Wireless sensor networks
• WSNs

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Additional information

Funding

This research was supported partly by the National Key Basic Research Project [973 Program] of China [2012CB215200]; the NSFC [51277193]; the Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education [20110036110003]; the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [2014ZD43]; and the Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province.

Notes on contributors

Yi Sun

Yi Sun received her BS degree in department of computer science from North China Electric Power University, Baoding, Hebei Province, China in 2005 and the MS degree in department of electric power engineering from North China Electric Power University, Baoding, Hebei Province, China in 2007. She received the PhD degree from North China Electric Power University, Beijing in 2010. Her current research topics include the power asset life cycle management, complex networks and fault analysis.

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Yagang Zhang

Yagang Zhang received his BS degree in department of mathematics from Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan Province, China in 2001 and the MS degree in center for nonlinear complex systems from Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan Province, China in 2004. He received the PhD degree from North China Electric Power University, Beijing in 2011. His current research topics include nonlinear complex system theory, complex networks and relay protection of power system.

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