Region Extreme Value Query in Sensor Networks

Existing research on extreme value query in wireless sensor networks is mainly focus on finding out sensors with highest metric. Yet in most actually scenarios, people cares more about special network regions than detailed metric of some single nodes. We put forward region extreme query in sensor networks which don't consider a sensor node but a region as query unit. We formally define region extreme value query and discuss how they can be expressed using the SQL. Then we devise a distributed algorithm named DCA for in-network evaluation of region extreme value query in dynamic region, aiming at the minimization of power consumption. Experiments show that DCA has good performance.