Mahmood ul Hassan1,*, Shahzad Ali2, Khalid Mahmood3, Muhammad Kashif Saeed4, Amin Al-Awady1, Kamran Javed5, Ansar Munir Shah6
CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.69, No.1, pp. 1003-1019, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.018264
- 04 June 2021
Abstract Node failure in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is a fundamental problem because WSNs operate in hostile environments. The failure of nodes leads to network partitioning that may compromise the basic operation of the sensor network. To deal with such situations, a rapid recovery mechanism is required for restoring inter-node connectivity. Due to the immense importance and need for a recovery mechanism, several different approaches are proposed in the literature. However, the proposed approaches have shortcomings because they do not focus on energy-efficient operation and coverage-aware mechanisms while performing connectivity restoration. Moreover, most of these approaches… More >