Resource allocation and congestion control in task-oriented distributed sensor networks

Jinsong Zhang; Ernst C. Kulasekere; Kamal Premaratne; Peter H. Bauer

doi:10.1117/12.456076

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14 February 2002 Resource allocation and congestion control in task-oriented distributed sensor networks

Jinsong Zhang, Ernst C. Kulasekere, Kamal Premaratne, Peter H. Bauer

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Proceedings Volume 4578, Fiber Optic Sensor Technology and Applications 2001; (2002) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.456076
Event: Environmental and Industrial Sensing, 2001, Boston, MA, United States

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Resource allocation and congestion control are two interrelated critical issues that arise in a task-oriented distributed sensor network. An effective resource management policy must account for these and their impact on the overall objectives of the network. In this paper, the viability of a virtual per-flow framework for addressing both resource allocation and congestion control in an integrated environment is demonstrated. In this framework, the resources being allocated to a physical buffer at a decision node are established by allocating and maintaining certain virtual resources to each incoming data flow. The virtual per-flow framework allows the design of controllers for each link independently of the others thus enabling a decoupled analysis and allowing one to incorporate different delay models and nonlinearities for each input data link. The effectiveness of the per-flow strategy is demonstrated via the design of a robust H_(infinity )-norm based feedback controller that ensures extremely good tracking of a dynamically changing set-point of a decision node buffer of a distributed sensor network. The design is robust against the time-varying and uncertain nature of network-induced delays.

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Jinsong Zhang, Ernst C. Kulasekere, Kamal Premaratne, and Peter H. Bauer "Resource allocation and congestion control in task-oriented distributed sensor networks", Proc. SPIE 4578, Fiber Optic Sensor Technology and Applications 2001, (14 February 2002); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.456076

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