Modeling and Simulation of Sensor-to-Sink Data Transport Reliability in WSNs

Abstract

The fundamental functionality of WSN (Wireless Sensor Networks) is to transport data from sensor nodes to the sink. To increase the fault tolerance, inherent sensor node redundancy in WSN can be exploited but the reliability guarantees are not ensured. The data transport process in WSN is devised as a set of operations on raw data generated in response to user requirements. The different operations filter the raw data to rationalize the reliable transport. Accordingly, we provide reliability models for various data transport semantics. In this paper we argue for the effectiveness of the proposed reliability models by comparing analytically and via simulations in TOSSIM.

Keywords

• Data Transport
• Reliability Block Diagrams
• Wireless Sensor Networks
• Modeling.