Survey of mobile object tracking protocols in wireless sensor networks: a network-centric perspective

@article{Tahan2012SurveyOM,
  title={Survey of mobile object tracking protocols in wireless sensor networks: a network-centric perspective},
  author={Marjan Naderan Tahan and Mehdi Dehghan and Hossein Pedram and Vesal Hakami},
  journal={Int. J. Ad Hoc Ubiquitous Comput.},
  year={2012},
  volume={11},
  pages={34-63}
}
Mobile object tracking in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) has gained much attention during recent years owing to its growing application potential for the ubiquitous society. In this paper, we present an investigation and taxonomy of the state-of-the-art in tracking moving objects in WSNs. To this end, we define the target tracking problem in general and introduce the major design considerations for an efficient Object Tracking Sensor Network (OTSN) in particular. We typify a complete object… 
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