Wireless visual sensor network resource allocation using cross-layer optimization

Elizabeth S. Bentley; John D. Matyjas; Michael J. Medley; Lisimachos P. Kondi

doi:10.1117/12.805907

19 January 2009 Wireless visual sensor network resource allocation using cross-layer optimization

Elizabeth S. Bentley, John D. Matyjas, Michael J. Medley, Lisimachos P. Kondi

Proceedings Volume 7257, Visual Communications and Image Processing 2009; 72570G (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.805907
Event: IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging, 2009, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

In this paper, we propose an approach to manage network resources for a Direct Sequence Code Division Multiple Access (DS-CDMA) visual sensor network where nodes monitor scenes with varying levels of motion. It uses cross-layer optimization across the physical layer, the link layer and the application layer. Our technique simultaneously assigns a source coding rate, a channel coding rate, and a power level to all nodes in the network based on one of two criteria that maximize the quality of video of the entire network as a whole, subject to a constraint on the total chip rate. One criterion results in the minimal average end-to-end distortion amongst all nodes, while the other criterion minimizes the maximum distortion of the network. Our approach allows one to determine the capacity of the visual sensor network based on the number of nodes and the quality of video that must be transmitted. For bandwidth-limited applications, one can also determine the minimum bandwidth needed to accommodate a number of nodes with a specific target chip rate. Video captured by a sensor node camera is encoded and decoded using the H.264 video codec by a centralized control unit at the network layer. To reduce the computational complexity of the solution, Universal Rate-Distortion Characteristics (URDCs) are obtained experimentally to relate bit error probabilities to the distortion of corrupted video. Bit error rates are found first by using Viterbi's upper bounds on the bit error probability and second, by simulating nodes transmitting data spread by Total Square Correlation (TSC) codes over a Rayleigh-faded DS-CDMA channel and receiving that data using Auxiliary Vector (AV) filtering.

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Elizabeth S. Bentley, John D. Matyjas, Michael J. Medley, and Lisimachos P. Kondi "Wireless visual sensor network resource allocation using cross-layer optimization", Proc. SPIE 7257, Visual Communications and Image Processing 2009, 72570G (19 January 2009); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.805907

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