Sensor Placement for Learning in Flow Networks

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2401.02438v1
• Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2023 01:08:08 GMT
• Title: Sensor Placement for Learning in Flow Networks
• Authors: Arnav Burudgunte, Arlei Silva
• Abstract summary: This paper investigates the sensor placement problem for networks. We first formalize the problem under a flow conservation assumption and show that it is NP-hard to place a fixed set of sensors optimally. Next, we propose an efficient and adaptive greedy for sensor placement that scales to large networks.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Large infrastructure networks (e.g. for transportation and power distribution) require constant monitoring for failures, congestion, and other adversarial events. However, assigning a sensor to every link in the network is often infeasible due to placement and maintenance costs. Instead, sensors can be placed only on a few key links, and machine learning algorithms can be leveraged for the inference of missing measurements (e.g. traffic counts, power flows) across the network. This paper investigates the sensor placement problem for networks. We first formalize the problem under a flow conservation assumption and show that it is NP-hard to place a fixed set of sensors optimally. Next, we propose an efficient and adaptive greedy heuristic for sensor placement that scales to large networks. Our experiments, using datasets from real-world application domains, show that the proposed approach enables more accurate inference than existing alternatives from the literature. We demonstrate that considering even imperfect or incomplete ground-truth estimates can vastly improve the prediction error, especially when a small number of sensors is available.

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