Goal programming approach for multi-criteria decision-making for an energy efficient event recognition scheme

Pattern recognition approaches are commonly adopted by many wireless sensor network applications due to their traditional effectiveness in detecting and recognizing events. Performance of a pattern recognition approach is directly proportional to the number of active sensor nodes. However, a high number of active nodes results in high energy consumption. Thus, the above situation can be considered as a multi-criteria decision-making problem, since the two factors are conflicting in nature. This paper proposes the application of goal programming approach to solve a multi-criteria decision-making problem considering pattern recognition success and energy consumption per node as the two decision-making criteria. Results suggest that goal programming is an efficient technique to address the above problem.