Accession Number:

ADA564756

Title:

Emergent Adaptive Noise Reduction From Communal Cooperation of Sensor Grid

Descriptive Note:

Conference paper

Corporate Author:

NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION HAMPTON VA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER

Personal Author(s):

• Jones, Kennie H.
• Nark, Douglas M.
• Jones, Michael G.
• Lodding, Kenneth N.

Report Date:

2010-07-01

Pagination or Media Count:

9.0

Abstract:

In the last decade, the realization of small, inexpensive, and powerful devices with sensors, computers, and wireless communication has promised the development of massive sized sensor networks with dense deployments over large areas capable of high fidelity situational assessments. However, most management models have been based on centralized control and research has concentrated on methods for passing data from sensor devices to the central controller. Most implementations have been small but as it is not scalable, this methodology is insufficient for massive deployments. Here, a specific application of a large sensor network for adaptive noise reduction demonstrates a new paradigm where communities of sensorcomputer devices assess local conditions and make local decisions from which emerges a global behaviour. This approach obviates many of the problems of centralized control as it is not prone to single point of failure and is more scalable, efficient robust, and fault tolerant.

Descriptors:

• *COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS
• *DETECTORS
• *NOISE REDUCTION
• ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS
• COMMUNITIES
• COOPERATION
• DECENTRALIZATION
• SITUATIONAL AWARENESS
• SYMPOSIA

Subject Categories:

• Cybernetics
• Miscellaneous Detection and Detectors
• Radio Communications

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE