Abstract

Data mining based information processing in Wireless Sensor Network WSN is at its preliminary stage as compared to traditional machine learning and WSN Currently researches mainly focus on applying machine learning techniques to solve a particular problem in WSN Different researchers will have different assumptions application scenarios and preferences in applying machine learning algorithms These differences represent a major challenge in allowing researchers to build upon each other s work so that research results will accumulate in the community Thus a common architecture across the WSN machine learning community would be necessary One of the major objectives of many WSN research works is to improve or optimize the performance of the entire network in terms of energy conservation and network lifetime This paper will survey Data Mining in WSN application from two perspectives namely the Network associated issue and Application associated issue In the Network associated issue different machine learning algorithms applied in WSNs to enhance network performance will be discussed In Application associated issue machine learning methods that have been used for information processing in WSNs will be summarized