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Approximate Holistic Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks

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Holistic aggregations are popular queries for users to obtain detailed summary information from Wireless Sensor Networks. An aggregation operation is holistic if there is no constant bound on the size of the storage needed to describe a sub-aggregation. Since holistic aggregation cannot be distributable, it requires that all the sensory data should be sent to the sink in order to obtain the exact holistic aggregation results, which costs lots of energy. However, in most applications, exact holistic aggregation results are not necessary; instead, approximate results are acceptable. To save energy as much as possible, we study the approximated holistic aggregation algorithms based on uniform sampling. In this article, four holistic aggregation operations, frequency, distinct-count, rank, and quantile, are investigated. The mathematical methods to construct their estimators and determine optional sample size are proposed, and the correctness of these methods are proved. Four corresponding distributed holistic algorithms to derive (ϵ, δ)-approximate aggregation results are given. The solid theoretical analysis and extensive simulation results show that all the proposed algorithms have high performance on the aspects of accuracy and energy consumption.

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    cover image ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks
    ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks  Volume 13, Issue 2
    May 2017
    235 pages
    ISSN:1550-4859
    EISSN:1550-4867
    DOI:10.1145/3081318
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    • Chenyang Lu
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    Published: 19 April 2017
    Accepted: 01 December 2016
    Revised: 01 December 2016
    Received: 01 May 2015
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