Fault detection and recovery scheme for routing and lifetime enhancement in WSN

Abstract

In WSNs, failures are unavoidable due to the inhospitable environment and unattended deployment. The node failure leads to disconnection from the network and causes network partitioning. We propose to develop a fault detection and recovery scheme where the sink generates an agent packet and the Agent forms a query path towards the dead or faulty node. Here, sink periodically broadcasts the Agent packet to all its neighbor nodes. The receiving node randomly makes a decision as whether to forward the packet or not thereby detecting the dead or faulty nodes. After detecting a node failure or dead node, the connectivity is restored using Least-Disruptive Topology Repair (LeDiR) without extending the length of the shortest path among nodes compared to the pre failure topology. LeDiR replaces the faulty node with block movement.