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MCTA: Target Tracking Algorithm Based on Minimal Contour in Wireless Sensor Networks

Overview This paper proposes a Minimal Contour Tracking Algorithm (MCTA) that reduces energy consumption for tracking mobile targets in wireless sensor networks in terms of sensing and communication energy consumption. MCTA conserves energy by letting only a minimum number of sensor nodes participate in communication and perform sensing for target tracking. MCTA uses the minimal tracking area based on the vehicular kinematics. The modeling of target's kinematics allows for pruning out part of the tracking area that cannot be mechanically visited by the mobile target within scheduled time. So, MCTA sends the tracking area information to only the sensor nodes within minimal tracking area and wakes them up.

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Publisher	University of Minnesota	File Format	PDF
Date Published	January 2007	Downloads	3
Format	White Papers
Topics	Monitoring Systems, Software Engineering, Mobile - Wireless Communications

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