Author(s)

Noureddine Boudriga

CN&S Research Lab., SUPCOM, University of Carthage, Ariana, Tunisia.

Target tracking using wireless sensor networks offers multiple challenges because it usually involves intensive computation and requires accurate methods for tracking and energy consumption. Above all, scalability, energy optimization, efficiency, and overhead reduction are some among the key tasks for any protocol designed to perform target tracking using large scale sensor networks. Border surveillance systems, on the other side, need to report border crossings in a real time manner. They should provide large coverage, lower energy consumption, real time crossing detection, and use efficient tools to report crossing information. In this paper, we present a scheme, called Border Cooperative and Predictive Tracking protocol (BCTP), capable of energyaware surveillance and continuous tracking of objects and individuals’ crossing a country border and anticipating target motion within a thick strip along the border and estimating the target exit zone and time.

Wireless Sensor Networks, Country Border Surveillance, Target Tracking, Sensor Deployment

Boudriga, N. (2016) A WSN-Based System for Country Border Surveillance and Target Tracking. Advances in Remote Sensing, 5, 51-72. doi: 10.4236/ars.2016.51005.