A framework for QoI-inspired analysis for sensor network deployment planning

In International Workshop on Performance Control in Wireless Sensor Networks, PWSN , 0 pages , Austin , TX , October 2007.

NESL Technical Report #: TR-UCLA-NESL-200710-04

The quality of information (QoI) that sensor networks provide to the applications they support is an important design goal for their deployment and use. In this paper, we introduce a layered framework for QoI-centered evaluation of sensor network deployment. The layered framework allows decomposing the deployment evaluation in three steps: in put pre-processing, core analysis, and result post-processing. The layering allows the creation of a rich, modular toolkit for QoI-centered analysis that can accommodate both existing and new system modeling and analysis techniques. We demonstrate the utility of the framework by comparing the QoI performance of finite-sized sensor networks with general deployment topology. We also derive some new analysis results for the class of applications considered herein.

• Sadaf Zahedi
• Chatschik Bisdikian

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