Mobile sink based fault diagnosis scheme for wireless sensor networks

Chanak, P., Banerjee, I. and Sherratt, R. S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7899-4445 (2016) Mobile sink based fault diagnosis scheme for wireless sensor networks. Journal of Systems and Software, 119. pp. 45-57. ISSN 0164-1212 doi: 10.1016/j.jss.2016.05.041

Abstract/Summary

Network diagnosis in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is a difficult task due to their improvisational nature, invisibility of internal running status, and particularly since the network structure can frequently change due to link failure. To solve this problem, we propose a Mobile Sink (MS) based distributed fault diagnosis algorithm for WSNs. An MS, or mobile fault detector is usually a mobile robot or vehicle equipped with a wireless transceiver that performs the task of a mobile base station while also diagnosing the hardware and software status of deployed network sensors. Our MS mobile fault detector moves through the network area polling each static sensor node to diagnose the hardware and software status of nearby sensor nodes using only single hop communication. Therefore, the fault detection accuracy and functionality of the network is significantly increased. In order to maintain an excellent Quality of Service (QoS), we employ an optimal fault diagnosis tour planning algorithm. In addition to saving energy and time, the tour planning algorithm excludes faulty sensor nodes from the next diagnosis tour. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithms through simulation and real life experimental results.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/65746
Identification Number/DOI	10.1016/j.jss.2016.05.041
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Life Sciences > School of Biological Sciences > Department of Bio-Engineering Life Sciences > School of Biological Sciences > Biomedical Sciences
Uncontrolled Keywords	Diagnostics, Infrastructure protection, Network monitoring, Wireless sensor networks.
Publisher	Elsevier
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