TITLE:
A WSN-Based System for Country Border Surveillance and Target Tracking
AUTHORS:
Noureddine Boudriga
KEYWORDS:
Wireless Sensor Networks, Country Border Surveillance, Target Tracking, Sensor Deployment
JOURNAL NAME:
Advances in Remote Sensing,
Vol.5 No.1,
March
14,
2016
ABSTRACT: Target tracking using wireless sensor networks offers multiple challenges because it usually involves
intensive computation and requires accurate methods for tracking and energy consumption.
Above all, scalability, energy optimization, efficiency, and overhead reduction are some
among the key tasks for any protocol designed to perform target tracking using large scale sensor
networks. Border surveillance systems, on the other side, need to report border crossings in a real
time manner. They should provide large coverage, lower energy consumption, real time crossing
detection, and use efficient tools to report crossing information. In this paper, we present a
scheme, called Border Cooperative and Predictive Tracking protocol (BCTP), capable of energyaware
surveillance and continuous tracking of objects and individuals’ crossing a country border
and anticipating target motion within a thick strip along the border and estimating the target exit
zone and time.