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The Computer Journal Advance Access published online on May 10, 2009
The Computer Journal, doi:10.1093/comjnl/bxp043
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Imprecision-Tolerant Location Management for Object-Tracking Wireless Sensor Network

Chih-Yu Lin1,*, Yu-Chee Tseng2 and Yung-Chih Liu3

1 Department of Information Science and Applications, Asia University, Taichung, Taiwan, R.O.C.
2 Department of Computer Science, National Chiao Tung University, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan, R.O.C.
3 Networks and Multimedia Institute, Institute for Information Industry, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.

* Corresponding author: lincyu{at}asia.edu.tw

Received 5 November 2008; revised 3 March 2009

An important issue of wireless sensor networks is object tracking, where the key steps include event detection, target classification, location estimation and location management. The main theme of this paper is location management. Because imprecision is an inherent property in object-tracking sensor networks, this paper focuses on the scenarios where users can tolerate a certain degree of imprecision in their query results. We intend to develop a location management scheme that can achieve two goals. First, multiple precision levels are provided. Second, the query cost is proportional to the precision level. To achieve these two goals, we propose a tree-based imprecision-tolerant location management scheme that includes three major components: (1) update and query mechanisms that can support imprecision-tolerant queries, (2) the approach to taking the statistics of imprecision-tolerant queries and (3) a tree construction algorithm that can reduce the query cost and minimize the increment of update cost. Performance evaluations are conducted through simulations to verify the proposed scheme.

Key Words: imprecision-tolerance • in-network processing • location management • object tracking • wireless sensor networks • wireless communications

Handling editor: Ing-Ray Chen


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