Collaborative-Comparison Learning for Complex Event Detection Using Distributed Hierarchical Graph Neuron (DHGN) Approach in Wireless Sensor Network

Research trends in existing event detection schemes using Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) have mainly focused on routing and localisation of nodes for optimum coordination when retrieving sensory information. Efforts have also been put in place to create schemes that are able to provide learning mechanisms for event detection using classification or clustering approaches. These schemes entail substantial communication and computational overheads owing to the event-oblivious nature of data transmissions. In this paper, we present an event detection scheme that has the ability to distribute detection processes over the resource-constrained wireless sensor nodes and is suitable for events with spatio-temporal characteristics. We adopt a pattern recognition algorithm known as Distributed Hierarchical Graph Neuron (DHGN) with collaborative-comparison learning for detecting critical events in WSN. The scheme demonstrates good accuracy for binary classification and offers low-complexity and high-scalability in terms of its processing requirements.