Location-free fault repair in hybrid sensor networks

Tuan  Le; Nadeem  Ahmed; Sanjay  Jha

1st International ICST Conference on Integrated Internet Ad hoc and Sensor Networks

Research Article

Location-free fault repair in hybrid sensor networks

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    author={Tuan  Le  and Nadeem  Ahmed  and Sanjay  Jha},
    title={Location-free fault repair in hybrid sensor networks},
    proceedings={1st International ICST Conference on Integrated Internet Ad hoc and Sensor Networks},
    publisher={ACM},
    proceedings_a={INTERSENSE},
    year={2006},
    month={5},
    keywords={},
    doi={10.1145/1142680.1142710}
}

Tuan Le
Nadeem Ahmed
Sanjay Jha
Year: 2006
Location-free fault repair in hybrid sensor networks
INTERSENSE
ACM
DOI: 10.1145/1142680.1142710

Tuan Le ^1,2^,*, Nadeem Ahmed ^1,2^,*, Sanjay Jha¹^,*

1: University of NSW, Sydney, Australia.
2: National ICT Australia (NICTA), Australian Technology Park, Sydney, Australia.

*Contact email: dtle@cse.unsw.edu.au, nahmed@cse.unsw.edu.au, sjha@cse.unsw.edu.au

Abstract

In this paper, we consider the sensor replacement problem in hybrid wireless sensor networks composed of mobile and static sensors. Mobility equipped mobile sensors are utilized to recover or to improve the overall coverage and connectivity. Unlike existing solution making assumptions of precise location information, our fault repair solution does not assume the localization information is available. Faulty sensors try to find available redundant sensors and ask for replacements. Mobile sensor nodes make use of simple geometric operation to locate and replace dying nodes to recover or increase the existing coverage and connectivity. Simulation results show that our proposed sensor replacement protocol successfully manages fault repair in absence of location information and is energy efficient.

Published: 2006-05-31
Publisher: ACM

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1142680.1142710