Error Robust Image Transport in Wireless Sensor Networks

In this paper, we propose an “in-network” diversity combining scheme for image transport in wireless sensor networks. We consider a wireless sensor network with both wireless link impairments and node failures. We investigate two performance metrics of the proposed image transport scheme: energy consumption and received image quality distortion. Simulation results show that the proposed image transport scheme improves the robustness to network errors at the expense of low energy overhead. This improvement is more noticeable in case of high node failure probability and long distance between the source and the destination. Our work also helps in understanding the tradeoffs between image quality distortion and energy consumption with different network parameters such as the number of hops between the source and the destination, the average channel error rate, and the average node failure rate.

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