A Survey of Fault Management in Wireless Sensor Networks |
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Authors: | Lilia Paradis Qi Han |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO 80401, USA;(2) Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO 80401, USA |
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Abstract: | Wireless sensor networks are resource-constrained self-organizing systems that are often deployed in inaccessible and inhospitable
environments in order to collect data about some outside world phenomenon. For most sensor network applications, point-to-point
reliability is not the main objective; instead, reliable event-of-interest delivery to the server needs to be guaranteed (possibly
with a certain probability). The nature of communication in sensor networks is unpredictable and failure-prone, even more
so than in regular wireless ad hoc networks. Therefore, it is essential to provide fault tolerant techniques for distributed
sensor applications. Many recent studies in this area take drastically different approaches to addressing the fault tolerance
issue in routing, transport and/or application layers. In this paper, we summarize and compare existing fault tolerant techniques
to support sensor applications. We also discuss several interesting open research directions.
Lilia Paradis is currently a graduate student in the Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Colorado School of Mines. She is
also part of the Toilers Ad Hoc Networking research group. She is interested in distributed communication protocols for wireless
sensor networks.
Qi Han received the PhD degree in computer science from the University of California, Irvine in 2005. She is currently an assistant
professor in the Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Colorado School of Mines. Her research interests include
distributed systems, middleware, mobile and pervasive computing, systems support for sensor applications, and dynamic data
management. She is specifically interested in developing adaptive middleware techniques for next generation distributed systems.
She is a member of the IEEE and the ACM. |
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Keywords: | sensor networks fault management fault detection fault diagnosis fault tolerance |
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