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Compressive network coding for error control in wireless sensor networks

  • Siguang Chen
  • , Meng Wu
  • , Kun Wang
  • , Zhixin Sun

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Abstract

Since the observed signals of nearby sensors are known to be correlated, this paper firstly investigates the connection between network coding and compression concept of compressed sensing and then makes an in-depth combination between these two powerful concepts for error control in wireless sensor networks. Thus, a joint scheme is developed to achieve the maximum gain by exploiting the temporal and spatial correlations simultaneously. This scheme overcomes drawbacks of network coding theory by injecting the corresponding distributed compressed sensing concept into network coding, i.e., the scheme possesses good compression gain and graceful degradation of precision in the reconstruction process. Meanwhile, it can tolerate finite erasures and errors as well as reconstruct the original information as precise as possible when the rank of error matrix (induced by erasures and errors) doesn’t exceed the upper boundary. Finally, the reliability analysis and numeric results show that the compressive network coding scheme (i.e., the joint scheme) outperforms the conventional network coding scheme in robustness and performance. © 2014, Springer Science+Business Media New York.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2605-2615
JournalWireless Networks
Volume20
Issue number8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 17 Oct 2014

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Funding

Acknowledgments We would like to thank Dr. C. W. Sung (City University of Hong Kong) and Dr. K. W. Shum (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) for their constructive comments and suggestions on this work. This work was partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 61201160, 61100213, 61373135, 61170276), the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (No. BK20131377), the Key Program of Natural Science Foundation of the Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions (No. 12KJA520003), the Specialized Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education (No. 20113223120007), the China Scholarship Council Project (Nos. 201408320091, 201208320212) and the Scientific Research Foundation of Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (No. NY213048).

Research Keywords

  • Compressed sensing
  • Error control
  • Network coding
  • Wireless sensor networks

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