Deligiannis, N;
Zimos, E;
Ofrim, DM;
Andreopoulos, Y;
Munteanu, A;
(2015)
Distributed Joint Source-Channel Coding With Copula-Function-Based Correlation Modeling for Wireless Sensors Measuring Temperature.
IEEE Sensors Journal
, 15
(8)
pp. 4496-4507.
10.1109/JSEN.2015.2421821.
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Abstract
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) deployed for temperature monitoring in indoor environments call for systems that perform efficient compression and reliable transmission of the measurements. This is known to be a challenging problem in such deployments, as highly efficient compression mechanisms impose a high computational cost at the encoder. In this paper, we propose a new distributed joint source-channel coding (DJSCC) solution for this problem. Our design allows for efficient compression and error-resilient transmission, with low computational complexity at the sensor. A new Slepian-Wolf code construction, based on non-systematic Raptor codes, is devised that achieves good performance at short code lengths, which are appropriate for temperature monitoring applications. A key contribution of this paper is a novel Copula-function-based modeling approach that accurately expresses the correlation amongst the temperature readings from colocated sensors. Experimental results using a WSN deployment reveal that, for lossless compression, the proposed Copula-function-based model leads to a notable encoding rate reduction (of up to 17.56%) compared with the state-of-the-art model in the literature. Using the proposed model, our DJSCC system achieves significant rate savings (up to 41.81%) against a baseline system that performs arithmetic entropy encoding of the measurements. Moreover, under channel losses, the transmission rate reduction against the state-of-the-art model reaches 19.64%, which leads to energy savings between 18.68% to 24.36% with respect to the baseline system.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Distributed Joint Source-Channel Coding With Copula-Function-Based Correlation Modeling for Wireless Sensors Measuring Temperature |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1109/JSEN.2015.2421821 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2015.2421821 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2015 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other users, including reprinting/ republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted components of this work in other works. |
| Keywords: | Science & Technology, Technology, Physical Sciences, Engineering, Electrical & Electronic, Instruments & Instrumentation, Physics, Applied, Engineering, Physics, Wireless sensor networks (WSNs), distributed joint source-channel coding (DJSCC), correlation modeling, copula function, temperature monitoring, DATA-COMPRESSION, SIDE INFORMATION, BINARY SOURCES, RAPTOR CODES, SLEPIAN-WOLF, NETWORKS, DESIGN, DECODER |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Electronic and Electrical Eng |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1497415 |
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