TY - GEN
T1 - A fault tolerance management framework for Wireless Sensor Networks
AU - Saleh, Iman
AU - El-Sayed, Hesham
AU - Eltoweissy, Mohamed
PY - 2006/12/1
Y1 - 2006/12/1
N2 - Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) have the potential of significantly enhancing our ability to monitor and interact with our physical environment. Realizing a fault-tolerant operation is critical to the success of WSN. The main challenge is providing fault-tolerance (FT) while conserving the limited resources of the network. Our main contribution in this paper is to propose a general framework for fault-tolerance in WSN. The proposed framework can be used to guide the design and development of FT solutions and to evaluate existing ones. We present a comparative study of the existing schemes and identify potential enhancements. A primary module of the framework is the learning and refinement module which enables a FT solution to be adaptive and self-configurable based on changes in the network conditions. We view this as vital to the resource-constrained and highly dynamic WSN. Up to our knowledge, we are the first to propose the implementation of such module in FT solutions for WSN.
AB - Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) have the potential of significantly enhancing our ability to monitor and interact with our physical environment. Realizing a fault-tolerant operation is critical to the success of WSN. The main challenge is providing fault-tolerance (FT) while conserving the limited resources of the network. Our main contribution in this paper is to propose a general framework for fault-tolerance in WSN. The proposed framework can be used to guide the design and development of FT solutions and to evaluate existing ones. We present a comparative study of the existing schemes and identify potential enhancements. A primary module of the framework is the learning and refinement module which enables a FT solution to be adaptive and self-configurable based on changes in the network conditions. We view this as vital to the resource-constrained and highly dynamic WSN. Up to our knowledge, we are the first to propose the implementation of such module in FT solutions for WSN.
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U2 - 10.1109/INNOVATIONS.2006.301903
DO - 10.1109/INNOVATIONS.2006.301903
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:50049091310
SN - 1424406749
SN - 9781424406746
T3 - 2006 Innovations in Information Technology, IIT
BT - 2006 Innovations in Information Technology, IIT
T2 - 2006 Innovations in Information Technology, IIT
Y2 - 19 November 2006 through 21 November 2006
ER -