Title: Reviewing the process of data fusion in wireless sensor network: a brief survey

Authors: S.G. Shivaprasad Yadav; A. Chitra; C. Lakshmi Deepika

Addresses: Department of Telecommunication Engineering, M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore, Karnataka, India ' Department of Computer Applications, P.S.G College of Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India ' Department of Biomedical Engineering, P.S.G College of Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

Abstract: Wireless sensor network is deployed on human inaccessible region to perform a very sensitive task where various external and internal factors affect the results being accumulated by the sensing node. Data fusion is one such technique. With the upcoming applications of wireless sensor network, it is also accompanied by various power and quality related issues. However, it was seen that whatever are the challenges or issues, it affects basically the data collection techniques from sensor nodes and corresponding forwarding to sink node. Hence, this paper aims to perform an exclusive investigation of the data fusion with respect to various standard architectures, standard algorithms and techniques investigated in the past study for performing data fusion, followed by open issues and research gap in the existing system adopted for enhancing the efficiency of data fusion techniques.

Keywords: data fusion; wireless sensor networks; WSNs; data aggregation; information aggregation.

DOI: 10.1504/IJWMC.2015.068617

International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing, 2015 Vol.8 No.2, pp.130 - 140

Received: 07 Feb 2014
Accepted: 19 Jul 2014
Published online: 07 Apr 2015 *

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