TY - GEN
T1 - A novel energy-aware fault tolerance mechanism for Wireless Sensor Networks
AU - Qiu, Meikang
AU - Liu, Jianning
AU - Li, Jiayin
AU - Fei, Zongming
AU - Ming, Zhong
AU - Sha, Edwin H.M.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Sensors in a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) are prone to failure, due to energy depletion, hardware failures, etc. Fault tolerance is one of the critical issues in WSNs. The existing fault tolerant mechanisms either consume significant extra energy to detect and recover from the failures or need to use additional hardware and software resource. In this paper, we propose a novel energy-aware fault tolerance mechanism for WSN, called Informer Homed Routing (IHR). In our IHR, the non cluster head nodes limit and select the target of their data transmission. Therefore, it consumes less energy. Our experiments show that our proposed protocol can dramatically reduce energy consumption, compared to two existing protocols, LEACH and DHR.
AB - Sensors in a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) are prone to failure, due to energy depletion, hardware failures, etc. Fault tolerance is one of the critical issues in WSNs. The existing fault tolerant mechanisms either consume significant extra energy to detect and recover from the failures or need to use additional hardware and software resource. In this paper, we propose a novel energy-aware fault tolerance mechanism for WSN, called Informer Homed Routing (IHR). In our IHR, the non cluster head nodes limit and select the target of their data transmission. Therefore, it consumes less energy. Our experiments show that our proposed protocol can dramatically reduce energy consumption, compared to two existing protocols, LEACH and DHR.
KW - Energy saving
KW - Fault tolerance
KW - Robustness
KW - Routing algorithm
KW - WSN
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U2 - 10.1109/GreenCom.2011.18
DO - 10.1109/GreenCom.2011.18
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:81255192161
SN - 9780769544663
T3 - Proceedings - 2011 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Green Computing and Communications, GreenCom 2011
SP - 56
EP - 61
BT - Proceedings - 2011 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Green Computing and Communications, GreenCom 2011
T2 - 2011 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Green Computing and Communications, GreenCom 2011
Y2 - 4 August 2011 through 5 August 2011
ER -