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Fault-Tolerant Design of Wireless Sensor Networks with Directional Antennas

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Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN 2013)

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A tree structure is often used in wireless sensor networks to deliver collected sensor data to a sink node. Such a tree can be built using directional antennas as they offer considerable advantage over the omni-directional ones. A tree is adequate for data gathering from all sensor nodes as long as no node in the tree fails. Since the connectivity of the tree is one, failure of any one node disconnects the tree and may disable the sink node from collecting data from some of the sensor nodes. In this paper we study the problem of enhancing the fault tolerance capability of a data gathering tree by adding a few additional links so that the failure of any one sensor would not disconnect the tree. Assuming that the addition of each link to the tree involves some cost, we study the problem of least-cost augmentation of the tree, so that even after failure of a single node, all the surviving nodes will remain connected to the sink node. We prove that the least-cost tree augmentation problem is NP-complete. Moreover, we provide an approximation algorithm with performance bound of two. The experimental evaluations of the algorithm demonstrate that the approximation algorithm performs even better in practice and almost always produces near-optimal solution.

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  1. School of Computing, Informatics and Decision System Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, 85281, USA

    Shahrzad Shirazipourazad & Arunabha Sen

  2. School of Computer Science, University of Windsor, Windsor, ON, N9B 3P4, Canada

    Subir Bandyopadhyay

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  1. IRISA/INRIA-Rennes, Campus Universitaire de Beaulieu, Campus Universitaire de Beaulieu, 35042, Rennes Cedex, France

    Davide Frey

  2. IRISA-ISTIC Université de Rennes 1, Institut Universitaire de France, Campus Universitaire de Beaulieu, 35042, Rennes Cedex, France

    Michel Raynal

  3. Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, 200 S. 33rd Street, 19104, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Saswati Sarkar

  4. Faculty of Technology and Computer Science, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Homi Bhabha Road, 400005, Mumbai, India

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  5. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, 791 Drees Labs, The Ohio State University, 2015 Neil Avenue, 43210-1277, Columbus, OH, USA

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Shirazipourazad, S., Sen, A., Bandyopadhyay, S. (2013). Fault-Tolerant Design of Wireless Sensor Networks with Directional Antennas. In: Frey, D., Raynal, M., Sarkar, S., Shyamasundar, R.K., Sinha, P. (eds) Distributed Computing and Networking. ICDCN 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7730. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35668-1_10

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