Routing Optimization and Secure Target Tracking in Distributed Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

Due to the limited energy supplies of nodes in wireless sensor networks (WSN), optimizing their design under energy constraints, reducing their communication costs, and securing their aggregated data are of paramount importance. To this goal and in order to efficiently solve the problem of target tracking in WSN with quantized measurements, we propose to jointly estimate the target position, the relay location, select the secure sensor nodes and the best communication path. Firstly, we select the appropriate group in order to balance the energy dissipation and to provide the required data of the target in the WSN. This selection is also based on the transmission power between a single sensor and a cluster head (CH). Secondly, we detect the malicious sensor nodes based on the information relevance of their measurements. Thirdly, we select the best communication path between the candidate sensor and the CH. Then, we estimate jointly the target position and the relay location using Quantized Variational Filtering (QVF) algorithm. The selection of candidate sensors is based on multi-criteria function, which is computed by using the predicted target position provided by the QVF algorithm, the malicious sensor nodes detection is based on Kullback-Leibler distance between the current target position distribution and the predicted sensor observation, while the best communication path is selected as well as the highest signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) at the CH. The efficiency of the proposed method is validated by extensive simulations in target tracking for wireless sensor networks. Index TermsWireless sensor networks, target tracking, quantized variational filtering, relay localization, best December 28, 2010 DRAFT 2 communication path, malicious sensor.