Compressed data aggregation for energy efficient wireless sensor networks

As a burgeoning technique for signal processing, compressed sensing (CS) is being increasingly applied to wireless communications. However, little work is done to apply CS to multihop networking scenarios. In this paper, we investigate the application of CS to data collection in wireless sensor networks, and we aim at minimizing the network energy consumption through joint routing and compressed aggregation. We first characterize the optimal solution to this optimization problem, then we prove its NP-completeness. We further propose a mixed-integer programming formulation along with a greedy heuristic, from which both the optimal (for small scale problems) and the near-optimal (for large scale problems) aggregation trees are obtained. Our results validate the efficacy of the greedy heuristics, as well as the great improvement in energy efficiency through our joint routing and aggregation scheme.

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