On The Reliability of Wireless Sensor Networks

AboElFotoh, Hosam M. F.; Elmallah, Ehab S.; Hassanein, Hossam S.

doi:10.1109/icc.2006.255607

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“…While reliability of homogeneous WSNs has been investigated in prior studies [1], [11]- [1], reliability analysis of backbone approach in WSN is largely unexplored. In [11], authors formulate a WSN reliability measure that considers the aggregate flow of sensor data into a sink node.…”

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On the reliability of backbone-assisted end-to-end transmissions in WSNs

Tufail

Khayam

Ali

et al. 2009

2009 First International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks

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Many anticipated deployment scenarios, in particular military, healthcare, and disaster-recovery applications, of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) require reliable source to sink communication. Since transmission range of sensors is quite limited, to achieve higher end-to-end transmission reliability, WSNs generally employ intermediate backbone links (wired or wireless) that can deliver packets at larger distances. In this paper, we evaluate the reliability of backbone-assisted routing and dissemination in WSNs. In particular, we use reliability theory to investigate two important problems: a) if sensor node to backbone/gateway node ratio is fixed in a unit area, what is the maximum achievable reliability? b) How many wired hops or gateway nodes are required to achieve a given reliability? Finally we analyze the cost and benefit incurred by adding gateway nodes to a backbone-assisted WSN and observe that after a certain threshold adding more backbone nodes to the WSN provides negligible improvement in the overall end-to-end reliability.

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“…In [11], authors formulate a WSN reliability measure that considers the aggregate flow of sensor data into a sink node. This measure is based on a given estimation of the data generation rate and the failure probability of each sensor.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

On the reliability of backbone-assisted end-to-end transmissions in WSNs

Tufail

Khayam

Ali

et al. 2009

2009 First International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks

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“…There are numerous studies on anomaly detection and fault diagnosis in industrial electronics [10][11][12][13][14][15][16], but these studies are mostly less focused on WSNs [17]. Due to the self-organizing and ad-hoc working mechanism of WSNs, it is often difficult to observe the structures, interactions, and operations of WSNs from an external monitoring system.…”

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“…Due to the self-organizing and ad-hoc working mechanism of WSNs, it is often difficult to observe the structures, interactions, and operations of WSNs from an external monitoring system. Existing approaches for performing fault diagnosis of WSN are mostly proactive [10,11,[18][19][20][21][22], because they can be embedded in a system to perform faulty sensor nodes detection and periodically health condition scan. For example, Luo et al [23] propose a fault-tolerant detection scheme to address the problem of measurement error and sensor fault.…”

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Kuiper test and autoregressive model-based approach for wireless sensor network fault diagnosis

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Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have recently received increasing attention in the areas of defense and civil applications of sensor networks. Automatic WSN fault detection and diagnosis is essential to assure system's reliability. Proactive WSNs fault diagnosis approaches use embedded functions scanning sensor node periodically for monitoring the health condition of WSNs. But this approach may speed up the depletion of limited energy in each sensor node. Thus, there is an increasing interest in using passive diagnosis approach. In this paper, WSN anomaly detection model based on autoregressive (AR) model and Kuiper test-based passive diagnosis is proposed. First, AR model with optimal order is developed based on the normal working condition of WSNs using Akaike information criterion. The AR model then acts as a filter to process the future incoming signal from different unknown conditions. A health indicator based on Kuiper test, which is used to test the similarity between the training error of normal condition and residual of test conditions, is derived for indicating the health conditions of WSN. In this study, synthetic WSNs data under different cases/conditions were generated and used for validating the approach. Experimental results show that the proposed approach could differentiate WSNs normal conditions from faulty conditions. At last, the overall results presented in this paper demonstrate that our approach is effective for performing WSNs anomalies detection.

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“…Most often the reliability analysis is performed with a probability graph [5] and include measures of factors such as fault diagnoses, analysis and recovery. Purohit et al [6] modeled the hardware and software modules of a wireless sensor network as a series-parallel structure using a reliability block diagram approach.…”

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Dynamic Evaluation and Visualisation of the Quality and Reliability of Sensor Data Sources

Dutta¹,

D’Este²,

Morshed³

et al. 2013

IJACSA

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Abstract-Before using remote data sources, or those from external organisations, it is important to establish if the source is fit for purpose. We have developed an approach to automatic sensor data annotation and visualisation that evaluates overall sensor network performance and data quality. The CSIRO's South Esk hydrological sensor web combines data related to water management from five different organisations, which provides a suitable platform to explore the issues of reliability and uncertainty. An environmental gridded surface is generated based on the observations and evaluations of quality and reliability of the sensor node provider.

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On The Reliability of Wireless Sensor Networks

Cited by 36 publications

References 7 publications

On the reliability of backbone-assisted end-to-end transmissions in WSNs

On the reliability of backbone-assisted end-to-end transmissions in WSNs

Kuiper test and autoregressive model-based approach for wireless sensor network fault diagnosis

Dynamic Evaluation and Visualisation of the Quality and Reliability of Sensor Data Sources

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