On Efficient Selection and Orientation of Directional Sensors in Visual Sensor Networks

Author(s):  
Raqeebir Rab ◽  
Miskat Jahan ◽  
Md. Shahadad Hossain Mridha ◽  
Andalib Olee ◽  
Saraf Nusrat ◽  
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2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 2817-2829
Author(s):  
Ahmad Javan Bakht ◽  
Homayun Motameni ◽  
Hosein Mohamadi

One of the most important problems in directional sensor networks is k-coverage in which the orientation of a minimum number of directional sensors is determined in such a way that each target can be monitored at least k times. This problem has been already considered in two different environments: over provisioned where the number of sensors is enough to cover all targets, and under provisioned where there are not enough sensors to do the coverage task (known as imbalanced k-coverage problem). Due to the significance of solving the imbalanced k-coverage problem, this paper proposes a learning automata (LA)-based algorithm capable of selecting a minimum number of sensors in a way to provide k-coverage for all targets in a balanced way. To evaluate the efficiency of the proposed algorithm performance, several experiments were conducted and the obtained results were compared to those of two greedy-based algorithms. The results confirmed the efficiency of the proposed algorithm in terms of solving the problem.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Qian Shen ◽  
Tao Jiang ◽  
Yongjun Zhu ◽  
Yin Wu

With the continuous improvement of encryption algorithms, some applications based on the architecture of wireless visual sensor networks have gradually shifted their attention to the imperceptibility and antijamming performance of secret images. To reduce the probability of secret images being detected, the current research focuses on hiding secret data in the least-significant bit of the cover image in the spatial domain or embedding data into the coefficients of the high-frequency band in the transformational domain, which usually leads to poor performance in a hostile environment. Therefore, some researchers proposed to substitute the coefficients of the medium-frequency band in the transformational domain with secret information to enhance the anti-interference performance. However, this idea would severely affect the imperceptibility of secret images. As a result, an improved version based on the partial preservation embedding algorithm was designed in this paper. Theory analysis and simulation results indicate that the proposed scheme performs better than the existing methods by directly substituting the coefficients of the medium-frequency band in the transformational domain, especially in the case of strong noise interference.


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