Estimating the Reliability and Lifetime of Wireless Sensor Network

Author

Jin, Yan-liang ; Lin, Hao-jie ; Zhang, Zhu-ming ; Zhang, Zhen ; Zhang, Xu-yuan

Author_Institution

Key Lab. of Special Fiber Opt. & Opt. Access Networks, Shanghai Univ., Shanghai

fYear

2008

fDate

12-14 Oct. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Estimating the reliability and lifetime distribution of wireless sensor network is very useful in various applications. This problem is known to be NP-hard. In this paper, we present a hexagon tessellation sensor network model with role assignment scheme and estimate the reliability and lifetime distribution by employing a new improved Monte Carlo scheme which incorporates both simulation and analytic methods and is suitable for the WSN. The simulation results show that the role assignment scheme and node density have important effects on the network reliability and lifetime by analyzing the node probability distribution in different situation.

Keywords

Monte Carlo methods; probability; telecommunication network reliability; wireless sensor networks; Monte Carlo scheme; NP-hard; hexagon tessellation sensor network; network lifetime distribution; network reliability; node probability distribution; role assignment scheme; wireless sensor network; Analytical models; Base stations; Batteries; Computer network reliability; Laboratories; Life estimation; Lifetime estimation; Monte Carlo methods; Telecommunication network reliability; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, 2008. WiCOM '08. 4th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dalian

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2107-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2108-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WiCom.2008.917

Filename

4678825