Field Reconstruction in Sensor Networks With Coverage Holes and Packet Losses

Environmental monitoring is often performed through a wireless sensor network, whose nodes are randomly deployed over the geographical region of interest. Sensors sample a physical phenomenon (the so-called field) and send their measurements to a sink node, which is in charge of reconstructing the field from such irregular samples. In this work, the authors focus on scenarios of practical interest where the sensor deployment is unfeasible in certain areas of the geographical region, e.g., due to terrain asperities, and the delivery of sensor measurements to the sink may fail due to fading or to transmission collisions among sensors simultaneously accessing the wireless medium.