Application of Self-Healing in Wireless Sensor Network

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are gaining popularity in many monitoring and event detection areas. But the limitation of low power sensors needs to be further researched to combat the self-healing aspect of sensor networks. Therefore this paper aims to present a survey on application of self-healing routing protocols in wireless sensor networks that have been designed by analyzing their operation, advantages and disadvantages. This presents an outline of each application of the protocol and an idea of how these features could be adapted into future research area in self-healing wireless sensor networks in terms of energy aspect. The self-healing characteristics are mainly derived from biologically-inspired mechanisms for autonomic behavior. Autonomic behavior systems are characterized into four functional systems as self-configuration, self-healing, self-optimization and self-protection. This survey mainly focuses on self-healing characteristics from the biologically-inspired perspectives as well as non-bio-inspired perspectives.

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Autonomic Wireless Sensor Networks: A Systematic Literature Review

Journal of Sensors ◽

10.1155/2014/782789 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 2014 ◽

pp. 1-13 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Jesús M. T. Portocarrero ◽

Flávia C. Delicato ◽

Paulo F. Pires ◽

Nadia Gámez ◽

Lidia Fuentes ◽

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Keyword(s):

Wireless Sensor Networks ◽

Sensor Networks ◽

Literature Review ◽

Systematic Literature Review ◽

Autonomic Computing ◽

The Self ◽

Wireless Sensor ◽

Model Transformations ◽

Basic Operation ◽

Self Healing

Autonomic computing (AC) is a promising approach to meet basic requirements in the design of wireless sensor networks (WSNs), and its principles can be applied to efficiently manage nodes operation and optimize network resources. Middleware for WSNs supports the implementation and basic operation of such networks. In this systematic literature review (SLR) we aim to provide an overview of existing WSN middleware systems that address autonomic properties. The main goal is to identify which development approaches of AC are used for designing WSN middleware system, which allow the self-management of WSN. Another goal is finding out which interactions and behavior can be automated in WSN components. We drew the following main conclusions from the SLR results: (i) the selected studies address WSN concerns according to the self-*properties of AC, namely, self-configuration, self-healing, self-optimization, and self-protection; (ii) the selected studies use different approaches for managing the dynamic behavior of middleware systems for WSN, such as policy-based reasoning, context-based reasoning, feedback control loops, mobile agents, model transformations, and code generation. Finally, we identified a lack of comprehensive system architecture designs that support the autonomy of sensor networking.

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Secure Key Establishment in Wireless Sensor Networks

Cyber Security and Threats ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-5634-3.ch044 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 883-908

Author(s):

Suman Bala ◽

Gaurav Sharma ◽

Anil K. Verma

Keyword(s):

Wireless Sensor Networks ◽

Sensor Networks ◽

Wireless Communication ◽

Physical World ◽

Research Area ◽

Wireless Sensor ◽

Future Research ◽

Key Establishment ◽

Engineered Systems ◽

New Research

Over the last two decades, advancement in pervasive sensing, embedded computing and wireless communication has lead an attention to a new research area of engineered systems termed as Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). CPS has bridged the gap between the physical world to the cyber world. It is envisioned that Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) plays an important role in the actuality of CPS. Due to wireless communication in WSN, it is more vulnerable to security threats. Key establishment is an approach, which is responsible for establishing a session between two communicating parties and therefore, a lightweight key establishment scheme is essential. In this chapter, we review the state of the art of these solutions by discussing key establishment in WSN. Also, a discussion has been carried out to capture few challenges in implementing them in real and future research directions in this area are explored to transport the field to an improved level.

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Secure Key Establishment in Wireless Sensor Networks

Handbook of Research on Modern Cryptographic Solutions for Computer and Cyber Security - Advances in Information Security, Privacy, and Ethics ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-0105-3.ch015 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 342-367

Author(s):

Suman Bala ◽

Gaurav Sharma ◽

Anil K. Verma

Keyword(s):

Wireless Sensor Networks ◽

Sensor Networks ◽

Wireless Communication ◽

Physical World ◽

Research Area ◽

Wireless Sensor ◽

Future Research ◽

Key Establishment ◽

Engineered Systems ◽

New Research

Over the last two decades, advancement in pervasive sensing, embedded computing and wireless communication has lead an attention to a new research area of engineered systems termed as Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). CPS has bridged the gap between the physical world to the cyber world. It is envisioned that Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) plays an important role in the actuality of CPS. Due to wireless communication in WSN, it is more vulnerable to security threats. Key establishment is an approach, which is responsible for establishing a session between two communicating parties and therefore, a lightweight key establishment scheme is essential. In this chapter, we review the state of the art of these solutions by discussing key establishment in WSN. Also, a discussion has been carried out to capture few challenges in implementing them in real and future research directions in this area are explored to transport the field to an improved level.

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A Survey on Real-Time Communications in Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing ◽

10.1155/2017/1864847 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 2017 ◽

pp. 1-14 ◽

Cited By ~ 18

Author(s):

Beom-Su Kim ◽

HoSung Park ◽

Kyong Hoon Kim ◽

Daniel Godfrey ◽

Ki-Il Kim

Keyword(s):

Wireless Sensor Networks ◽

Sensor Networks ◽

Real Time ◽

Single Layer ◽

Research Area ◽

Wireless Sensor ◽

Future Research ◽

Important Research ◽

Time Model ◽

Comprehensive Survey

Generally, various traffic requirements in wireless sensor network are mostly dependent on specific application types, that is, event-driven, continuous, and query-driven types. In these applications, real-time delivery is one of the important research challenges. However, due to harsh networking environment around a node, many researchers usually take different approach from conventional networks. In order to discuss and analyze the advantage or disadvantage of these approaches, some comprehensive survey literatures were published; however they are either out of date or compiled for communication protocols on single layer. Based on this deficiency, in this paper, we present the up-to-date research approaches and discuss the important features related to real-time communications in wireless sensor networks. As for grouping, we categorize the approaches into hard, soft, and firm real-time model. Furthermore, in all these categories, research has been focused on MAC and scheduling and routing according to research area or objective in second level. Finally, the article also suggests potential directions for future research in the field.

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Practicality Analysis of the Self-Healing Group Key Distribution Schemes for Resource-Constricted Wireless Sensor Networks

2011 Third International Conference on Communications and Mobile Computing ◽

10.1109/cmc.2011.113 ◽

2011 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Qiuhua Wang

Keyword(s):

Wireless Sensor Networks ◽

Sensor Networks ◽

Key Distribution ◽

The Self ◽

Wireless Sensor ◽

Self Healing ◽

Group Key ◽

Group Key Distribution ◽

Healing Group

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Improved DV-Hop Localization Scheme for Randomly Deployed WSNs

International Journal of Sensors Wireless Communications and Control ◽

10.2174/2210327909666190208161350 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 94-109 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Rekha Goyat ◽

Mritunjay Kumar Rai ◽

Gulshan Kumar ◽

Hye-Jin Kim ◽

Se-Jung Lim

Keyword(s):

Wireless Sensor Networks ◽

Energy Consumption ◽

Sensor Networks ◽

Research Area ◽

Sensor Nodes ◽

Wireless Sensor ◽

Localization Error ◽

Anchor Nodes ◽

Least Energy ◽

Range Free

Background: Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is considered one of the key research area in the recent. Various applications of WSNs need geographic location of the sensor nodes. Objective: Localization in WSNs plays an important role because without knowledge of sensor nodes location the information is useless. Finding the accurate location is very crucial in Wireless Sensor Networks. The efficiency of any localization approach is decided on the basis of accuracy and localization error. In range-free localization approaches, the location of unknown nodes are computed by collecting the information such as minimum hop count, hop size information from neighbors nodes. Methods: Although various studied have been done for computing the location of nodes but still, it is an enduring research area. To mitigate the problems of existing algorithms, a range-free Improved Weighted Novel DV-Hop localization algorithm is proposed. Main motive of the proposed study is to reduced localization error with least energy consumption. Firstly, the location information of anchor nodes is broadcasted upto M hop to decrease the energy consumption. Further, a weight factor and correction factor are introduced which refine the hop size of anchor nodes. Results: The refined hop size is further utilized for localization to reduces localization error significantly. The simulation results of the proposed algorithm are compared with other existing algorithms for evaluating the effectiveness and the performance. The simulated results are evaluated in terms localization error and computational cost by considering different parameters such as node density, percentage of anchor nodes, transmission range, effect of sensing field and effect of M on localization error. Further statistical analysis is performed on simulated results to prove the validation of proposed algorithm. A paired T-test is applied on localization error and localization time. The results of T-test depicts that the proposed algorithm significantly improves the localization accuracy with least energy consumption as compared to other existing algorithms like DV-Hop, IWCDV-Hop, and IDV-Hop. Conclusion: From the simulated results, it is concluded that the proposed algorithm offers 36% accurate localization than traditional DV-Hop and 21 % than IDV-Hop and 13% than IWCDV-Hop.

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