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As one of the key operations in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), the energy-efficient data collection schemes have been actively explored in the literature. However, the transform basis for sparsifing the sensed data is usually chosen empirically, and the transformed results are not always the sparsest. In this paper, we propose a Data Collection scheme based on Denoising Autoencoder (DCDA) to solve the above problem. In the data training phase, a Denoising AutoEncoder (DAE) is trained to compute the data measurement matrix and the data reconstruction matrix using the historical sensed data. Then, in the data collection phase, the sensed data of whole network are collected along a data collection tree. The data measurement matrix is utilized to compress the sensed data in each sensor node, and the data reconstruction matrix is utilized to reconstruct the original data in the sink. Finally, the data communication performance and data reconstruction performance of the proposed scheme are evaluated and compared with those of existing schemes using real-world sensed data. The experimental results show that compared to its counterparts, the proposed scheme results in a higher data compression rate, lower energy consumption, more accurate data reconstruction, and faster data reconstruction speed.


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An Energy-Efficient Data Collection Scheme Using Denoising Autoencoder in Wireless Sensor Networks

Show Author's information Guorui LiSancheng Peng( )Cong WangJianwei NiuYing Yuan
School of Computer Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China.
School of Information Science and Technology, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou 510006, China.
State Key Laboratory of Virtual Reality Technology and Systems, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China.

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As one of the key operations in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), the energy-efficient data collection schemes have been actively explored in the literature. However, the transform basis for sparsifing the sensed data is usually chosen empirically, and the transformed results are not always the sparsest. In this paper, we propose a Data Collection scheme based on Denoising Autoencoder (DCDA) to solve the above problem. In the data training phase, a Denoising AutoEncoder (DAE) is trained to compute the data measurement matrix and the data reconstruction matrix using the historical sensed data. Then, in the data collection phase, the sensed data of whole network are collected along a data collection tree. The data measurement matrix is utilized to compress the sensed data in each sensor node, and the data reconstruction matrix is utilized to reconstruct the original data in the sink. Finally, the data communication performance and data reconstruction performance of the proposed scheme are evaluated and compared with those of existing schemes using real-world sensed data. The experimental results show that compared to its counterparts, the proposed scheme results in a higher data compression rate, lower energy consumption, more accurate data reconstruction, and faster data reconstruction speed.

Keywords: neural networks, wireless sensor networks, data collection, autoencoder, data reconstruction

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Received: 10 May 2017
Revised: 14 July 2017
Accepted: 07 August 2017
Published: 08 November 2018
Issue date: February 2019

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 61402094, 61572060, and 61702089), the Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province (Nos. F2016501076 and F2016501079), the Natural Science Foundation of Liaoning Province (No. 201602254), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. N172304022), the Science and Technology Plan Project of Guangzhou (No. 201804010433), and the Bidding Project of Laboratory of Language Engineering and Computing (No. LEC2017ZBKT001).

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