Title: Target tracking of binary wireless sensor networks in the domain of medicine and healthcare

Authors: Su Ling-Dong; Zhai Ming-Yue; Mao Qi-Lin

Addresses: School of Electric and Electronic Engineering, North China Electric Power University, No. 2, Beinong Road, Changping District, Beijing, China ' School of Electric and Electronic Engineering, North China Electric Power University, No. 2, Beinong Road, Changping District, Beijing, China ' School of Communication Engineering, Nanjing Institute of Technology, No. 1, Hongjing Avenue, Jiangning Science Park, Nanjing, China

Abstract: In the domain of medicine and healthcare (M&HC), wireless sensor networks (WSNs) play a more and more important role. Under some special situations, the object of the WSN is moving leading to the problems of target tracking. Since real-time and communication amount is crucial for the WSN target tracking, the performance of target tracking in the WSN is critically depended on real-time and communication amount reduction. This paper presents a target tracking method based on distributed adaptive particle filtering in binary WSN. On the basis of dynamic clustering, the adaptive particle filter receives the observations from children nodes and formulates the local estimate with the cluster head as the processing centre. Simulation results show that the method can effectively improve the real-time tracking and reduce communication amount.

Keywords: adaptive particle filters; binary WSNs; wireless sensor networks; target tracking; medicine; healthcare technology; dynamic clustering; simulation.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSNET.2015.068183

International Journal of Sensor Networks, 2015 Vol.17 No.3, pp.188 - 194

Received: 01 Jul 2014
Accepted: 17 Sep 2014

Published online: 22 Mar 2015 *

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