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http://dx.doi.org/10.9717/kmms.2014.17.4.441

Fundamental Considerations: Impact of Sensor Characteristics, Application Environments in Wireless Sensor Networks  

Choi, Dongmin (Division of Undeclared Majors, Chosun University)
Chung, Ilyong (Department of Computer Engineering, Chosun University)
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Journal of Korea Multimedia Society / v.17, no.4, 2014 , pp. 441-457 More about this Journal
Abstract
Observed from the recent performance evaluation of clustering schemes in wireless sensor networks, we found that most of them did not consider various sensor characteristics and its application environment. Without considering these, the performance evaluation results are difficult to be trusted because these networks are application-specific. In this paper, for the fair evaluation, we measured several clustering scheme's performance variations in accordance with sensor data pattern, number of sensors per node, density of points of interest (data density) and sensor coverage. According to the experiment result, we can conclude that clustering methods are easily influenced by POI variation. Network lifetime and data accuracy are also slightly influenced by sensor coverage and number of sensors. Therefore, in the case of the clustering scheme that did not consider various conditions, fair evaluation cannot be expected.
Keywords
Performance Evaluation of Sensor Network; Sensor Characteristics; Application Environment of Sensor Network;
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