Repairing wireless sensor network connectivity with mobility and hop-count constraints

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Abstract

Wireless Sensor Networks can become partitioned due to node failure or damage, and must be repaired by deploying new sensors, relays or sink nodes to restore some quality of service. We formulate the task as a multi-objective problem over two graphs. The solution specifies additional nodes to reconnect a connectivity graph subject to network path-length constraints, and a path through a mobility graph to visit those locations. The objectives are to minimise both the cost of the additional nodes and the length of the mobility path. We propose two heuristic algorithms which prioritise the different objectives. We evaluate the two algorithms on randomly generated graphs, and compare their solutions to the optimal solutions for the individual objectives. Finally, we assess the total restoration time for different classes of agent, i.e. small robots and larger vehicles, which allows us to trade-off longer computation times for shorter mobility paths.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAd-hoc, Mobile, and Wireless Network - 12th International Conference, ADHOC-NOW 2013, Proceedings
Pages75-86
Number of pages12
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013
Event12th International Conference on Ad-hoc, Mobile and Wireless Networks, ADHOC-NOW 2013 - Wroclaw, Poland
Duration: 8 Jul 201310 Jul 2013

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume7960 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference12th International Conference on Ad-hoc, Mobile and Wireless Networks, ADHOC-NOW 2013
Country/TerritoryPoland
CityWroclaw
Period8/07/1310/07/13

Keywords

  • Connectivity Repair
  • Sensor Network
  • Sink Placement

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