1Department of Electronics & Telecom Engineering, Cummins College of Engineering for Women, Pune, India
2Research Scholar of Department of Electronics, Sathyabama University, Chennai, India
3Department of Electronics & Telecom Engineering, College of Engineering, Pune, India
4Department of Electronics & Control Engineering, Sathyabama University, Chennai, India
Online published on 8 November, 2017.
Due to its wide range of applications, Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks (MWSN) has gained popularity. The issues like the sensor node becoming faulty and unreliable rises due to extensive deployment of sensor nodes harsh, uncontrolled or hostile environment. To overcome issues like these, we have proposed a Cluster Based Fault Detection and Recovery (CFDR) technique in MWSNs. For fault detection, an optimal monitoring node is selected which detects the fault and takes the steps for recovery. In case, the fault is from a sensor node, then its child is made to associate with an appropriately selected sensor node which will act as its alternate parent. Moreover, if the fault is from the Cluster Head (CH), then it selects a new CH. We evaluate the performance of the new protocol in comparison with the Decentralized Fault Detection Mechanism (DFDM) [3]
Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks (MWSN), Fault Detection, Fault Recovery, Monitoring Node, Cluster Head (CH)
