EDLA tradeoffs for wireless sensor network target tracking

The number of active nodes in a WSN deployment
governs both the longevity of the network and the accuracy
of applications using the network’s data. As node hibernation
techniques become more sophistocated, it is important that an
accurate evaluation methodology is employed to ensure fair
comparisons across different techniques. Examining both energy
and accuracy ensures a claim of increased longevity for a
particular technique can be contrasted against its associated
drop, if any, in application accuracy. This change can also be
as a result of increased latency and the accuracy encapsulates
many aspects of WSN performance in one metric. In this work,
we detail the first in a series of simulation experiments designed
to demonstrate the tradeoffs for a WSN and we employ mobility
tracking as the application to benchmark accuracy. Additionally,
we demonstrate experimental evidence for a potential adaptive
mobility tracking protocol.