TY - JOUR
T1 - Design and performance evaluation of aquatic-pollution monitoring scheme over a Waterborne Wireless Sensor Network
AU - Chen, Ming Che
AU - Chang, Wang Rong
AU - Lin, Hui Tang
AU - Lee, Hong Hsiung
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank the National Science Council, Taiwan, R.O.C., for supporting this research under grant NSC 97-2221-E-006 -175 -MY3.
PY - 2014/3/1
Y1 - 2014/3/1
N2 - Spillages of pollutants such as oil or biochemical materials at sea have the potential to damage not only the offshore environments, but also the regional economy. Accordingly, this study develops an aquatic-pollution detection and tracking scheme, designated as AquaView, based on a Wireless Sensor Network deployed over an offshore region (i.e., a Waterborne Wireless Sensor Network (WWSN)) to track the moving boundary of a pollution spill such that cleanup operation can be effectively monitored and controlled. In evaluating the boundary tracking performance of AquaView, a 3D Floating Mobility Model (3D FMM) is used to simulate the movement of the sensor nodes floating on the ocean surface. The numerical results confirm that the 3D FMM model accurately reproduces the statistical features of the ocean current, wind and surface wave effects on the 3D trajectories of the sensor nodes. Moreover, it is shown that AquaView achieves a significantly improvement in a satisfactory boundary estimation performance and a low communication cost.
AB - Spillages of pollutants such as oil or biochemical materials at sea have the potential to damage not only the offshore environments, but also the regional economy. Accordingly, this study develops an aquatic-pollution detection and tracking scheme, designated as AquaView, based on a Wireless Sensor Network deployed over an offshore region (i.e., a Waterborne Wireless Sensor Network (WWSN)) to track the moving boundary of a pollution spill such that cleanup operation can be effectively monitored and controlled. In evaluating the boundary tracking performance of AquaView, a 3D Floating Mobility Model (3D FMM) is used to simulate the movement of the sensor nodes floating on the ocean surface. The numerical results confirm that the 3D FMM model accurately reproduces the statistical features of the ocean current, wind and surface wave effects on the 3D trajectories of the sensor nodes. Moreover, it is shown that AquaView achieves a significantly improvement in a satisfactory boundary estimation performance and a low communication cost.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.comcom.2013.12.007
DO - 10.1016/j.comcom.2013.12.007
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84895062871
SN - 0140-3664
VL - 40
SP - 51
EP - 64
JO - Computer Communications
JF - Computer Communications
ER -