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Resource Allocation and Performance Analysis of Wireless Video Sensors
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/TCSVT.2006.873154Wireless video sensor networks (WVSNs) have been envisioned for a wide range of important applications, including battlefield intelligence, security monitoring, emergency response, and environmental tracking. Compared to traditional communication system, the WVSN operates under a set of unique resource
constraints, including limitations with respect to energy supply,on-board computational capability, and transmission bandwidth. The objective of this paper is to study the resource utilization behavior of a wireless video sensor and analyze its performance under the resource constraints. More specifically, we develop an analytic power-rate-distortion (P-R-D) model to characterize the inherent relationship between the power consumption of a video encoder and its rate-distortion performance. Based on the P-R-D analysis and a simplified model for wireless transmission power,we study the optimum power allocation between video encoding
and wireless transmission and introduce a measure called achievable minimum distortion to quantify the distortion under a total
power constraint. We consider two scenarios in wireless video sensing, small-delay wireless video monitoring and large-delay wireless video surveillance, and analyze the performance limit of the wireless video sensor in each scenario. The analysis and results obtained in this paper provide an important guideline for practical wireless video sensor design.This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under
Grant DBI-0529082 and Grant DBI-0529012
Energy Harvesting Wireless Communications: A Review of Recent Advances
This article summarizes recent contributions in the broad area of energy
harvesting wireless communications. In particular, we provide the current state
of the art for wireless networks composed of energy harvesting nodes, starting
from the information-theoretic performance limits to transmission scheduling
policies and resource allocation, medium access and networking issues. The
emerging related area of energy transfer for self-sustaining energy harvesting
wireless networks is considered in detail covering both energy cooperation
aspects and simultaneous energy and information transfer. Various potential
models with energy harvesting nodes at different network scales are reviewed as
well as models for energy consumption at the nodes.Comment: To appear in the IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications
(Special Issue: Wireless Communications Powered by Energy Harvesting and
Wireless Energy Transfer
On the Optimum Energy Efficiency for Flat-fading Channels with Rate-dependent Circuit Power
This paper investigates the optimum energy efficiency (EE) and the
corresponding spectral efficiency (SE) for a communication link operating over
a flat-fading channel. The EE is evaluated by the total energy consumption for
transmitting per message bit. Three channel cases are considered, namely static
channel with channel state information available at transmitter (CSIT),
fast-varying (FV) channel with channel distribution information available at
transmitter (CDIT), and FV channel with CSIT. A general circuit power model is
considered. For all the three channel cases, the tradeoff between the EE and SE
is studied. It is shown that the EE improves strictly as the SE increases from
0 to the optimum SE, and then strictly degrades as the SE increases beyond the
optimum SE. The impact of {\kappa}, {\rho} and other system parameters on the
optimum EE and corresponding SE is investigated to obtain insight.Some of the
important and interesting results for all the channel cases include: (1) when
{\kappa} increases the SE corresponding to the optimum EE should keep unchanged
if {\phi}(R) = R, but reduced if {\phi}(R) is strictly convex of R; (2) when
the rate-independent circuit power {\rho} increases, the SE corresponding to
the optimum EE has to be increased. A polynomial-complexity algorithm is
developed with the bisection method to find the optimum SE. The insight is
corroborated and the optimum EE for the three cases are compared by simulation
results.Comment: 12 pages, 7 figures, to appear in IEEE Transactions on Communication
Energy Consumption Of Visual Sensor Networks: Impact Of Spatio-Temporal Coverage
Wireless visual sensor networks (VSNs) are expected to play a major role in
future IEEE 802.15.4 personal area networks (PAN) under recently-established
collision-free medium access control (MAC) protocols, such as the IEEE
802.15.4e-2012 MAC. In such environments, the VSN energy consumption is
affected by the number of camera sensors deployed (spatial coverage), as well
as the number of captured video frames out of which each node processes and
transmits data (temporal coverage). In this paper, we explore this aspect for
uniformly-formed VSNs, i.e., networks comprising identical wireless visual
sensor nodes connected to a collection node via a balanced cluster-tree
topology, with each node producing independent identically-distributed
bitstream sizes after processing the video frames captured within each network
activation interval. We derive analytic results for the energy-optimal
spatio-temporal coverage parameters of such VSNs under a-priori known bounds
for the number of frames to process per sensor and the number of nodes to
deploy within each tier of the VSN. Our results are parametric to the
probability density function characterizing the bitstream size produced by each
node and the energy consumption rates of the system of interest. Experimental
results reveal that our analytic results are always within 7% of the energy
consumption measurements for a wide range of settings. In addition, results
obtained via a multimedia subsystem show that the optimal spatio-temporal
settings derived by the proposed framework allow for substantial reduction of
energy consumption in comparison to ad-hoc settings. As such, our analytic
modeling is useful for early-stage studies of possible VSN deployments under
collision-free MAC protocols prior to costly and time-consuming experiments in
the field.Comment: to appear in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video
Technology, 201
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