A Data Aggregation Approach Exploiting Spatial and Temporal Correlation among Sensor Data in Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have various applications which include zone surveillance, environmental monitoring, event tracking where the operation mode is long term. WSNs are characterized by low-powered and battery-operated sensor devices with a finite source of energy. Due to the dense deployment of these devices practically it is impossible to replace the batteries. The finite source of energy should be utilized in a meaningful way to maximize the overall network lifetime. In the space domain, there is a high correlation among sensor surveillance constituting the large volume of the sensor network topology. Each consecutive observation constitutes the temporal correlation depending on the physical phenomenon nature of the sensor nodes. These spatio-temporal correlations can be efficiently utilized in order to enhance the maximum savings in energy uses. In this paper, we have proposed a Spatial and Temporal Correlation-based Data Redundancy Reduction (STCDRR) protocol which eliminates redundancy at the source level and aggregator level. The estimated performance score of proposed algorithms is approximately 7.2 when the score of existing algorithms such as the KAB (K-means algorithm based on the ANOVA model and Bartlett test) and ED (Euclidian distance) are 5.2, 0.5, respectively. It reflects that the STCDRR protocol can achieve a higher data compression rate, lower false-negative rate, lower false-positive rate. These results are valid for numeric data collected from a real data set. This experiment does not consider non-numeric values.