Dynamic Reconfiguration in Camera Netwo...

There is a clear trend in camera networks towardsenhanced functionality and flexibility, and a fixed staticdeployment is typically not sufficient to fulfill these increasedrequirements. Dynamic network reconfiguration helps to optimizethe network performance to the currently required specifictasks while considering the available resources. Although severalreconfiguration methods have been recently proposed, e.g., formaximizing the global scene coverage or maximizing the imagequality of specific targets, there is a lack of a general frameworkhighlighting the key components shared by all these systems.In this paper we propose a reference framework for networkreconfiguration and present a short survey of some of the mostrelevant state-of-the-art works in this field, showing how they canbe reformulated in our framework. Finally we discuss the mainopen research challenges in camera network reconfiguration.