An Adaptive and Flexible Fault Tolerance Mechanism Designed on Multi-behavior Agents for Wireless Sensor/Actuator Network

Author

Pileggi, Salvatore F. ; Palau, Carlos E. ; Esteve, Manuel

Author_Institution

Univ. Polytech. de Valencia, Valencia

fYear

2007

fDate

14-20 Oct. 2007

Firstpage

283

Lastpage

288

Abstract

In the last few years, WSN has been object of an intense research activity that has determined an important improvement by technologic and computation point of view both. The notable level got and the increasing request of applications designed over Sensor Networks make WSN commercial diffusion next to be a fact. One of key issues for commercial diffusion of WSN is related to the robustness of architectures. An adaptive and flexible fault tolerant mechanism for WSN is proposed in the paper. Considering the tradeoffs between robustness and energy efficiency as central issue, a programming model based on multi-behavior agents that can guarantee an efficient, dynamic and extendible implementation is proposed too.

Keywords

fault tolerant computing; multi-agent systems; telecommunication computing; wireless sensor networks; adaptive fault tolerance; flexible fault tolerance; multi-behavior agents; wireless actuator network; wireless sensor network; Actuators; Dynamic programming; Energy efficiency; Fault detection; Fault tolerance; Fault tolerant systems; Quality of service; Resource management; Robustness; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Sensor Technologies and Applications, 2007. SensorComm 2007. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Valencia

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-2988-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SENSORCOMM.2007.4394935

Filename

4394935