Stochastic Counting in Sensor Networks, or: Noise Is Good

We propose a novel algorithm of counting indistinguishable objects by a collection of sensors. The information on multiple counting is recovered from the stochastic correlation patterns.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: DCOSS
• Authors: Yuliy M. Baryshnikov, Edward G. Coffman Jr., Kyung Joon Kwak, Bill Moran
• Keywords: DCOSS 2008, Distributed And Parallel Computing, Indistinguishable Objects, Multiple Counting, Stochastic Correlation Patterns