A secure communication mechanism is necessary in the applications of Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (WMSNs), which is more vulnerable to security attacks due to the presence of multimedia data. Additionally, given the limited technological resources (in term of energy, computation, bandwidth, and storage) of sensor nodes, security and privacy policies have to be combined with energy-aware algorithms and distributed processing of multimedia contents in WMSNs. To solve these problems in this paper, an energy efficient distributed steganography scheme, which combines steganography technique with the concept of distributed computing, is proposed for secure communication in WMSNs. The simulation results show that the proposed method can achieve considerable energy efficiency while assuring the communication security simultaneously.
In this paper, a clustering algorithm is proposed based on the high correlation among the overlapped field of views for the wireless multimedia sensor networks. Firstly, by calculating the area of the overlapped field of views (FoVs) based on the gird method, node correlations have been obtained. Then, the algorithm utilizes the node correlations to partition the network region in which there are high correlation multimedia sensor nodes. Meanwhile, in order to minimize the energy consumption for transmitting images, the strategy of the cluster heads election is proposed based on the cost estimation, which consists of signal strength and residual energy as well as the node correlation. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can balance the energy consumption and extend the network lifetime effectively.
The Wyner-Ziv distributed video coding scheme is characterized for its intraframe encoder and interframe decoder which can also approach the efficiency of an interframe encoder-decoder system. In Wyner-Ziv residual coding of video, the residual of a frame with respect to a reference frame is Wyner-Ziv encoded, which can reduces the input entropy and leads to a higher coding efficiency than directly encoding the original frame. In this paper, we propose a new approach of residual coding combined with Region Of Interest (ROI) extraction. Experimental results show that, the proposed scheme achieves better rate-distortion performance compared to conventional Wyner-Ziv coding scheme.
To balancing energy consumption in wireless sensor networks, we proposed a fixed time interval node broadcasting scheme under variational acceleration straight-line movement model. Simulation results show that the approach proposed in this paper has a superior performance on energy consumption balance compared to uniform broadcasting methods.
Recently, privacy concerns become an increasingly critical issue. Secure multi-party computation plays an important role in privacy-preserving. Secure multi-party computational geometry is a new field of secure multi-party computation. In this paper, we devote to investigating the solutions to some secure geometric problems in a cooperative environment. The problem is collaboratively computing the Euclid-distance between two private vectors without disclosing the private input to each other. A general privacy-preserving Euclid-distance protocol is firstly presented as a building block and is proved to be secure and efficient in the comparison with the previous methods. And we proposed a new protocol for the application in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), based on the novel Euclid-distance protocol and Density-Based Clustering Protocol (DBCP), so that the nodes from two sides can compute cooperatively to divide them into clusters without disclosing their location information to the opposite side.
Chen PingJi YimuWang RuchuanHuang HaipingZhang Dan