Topology management techniques for tolerating node failures in wireless sensor networks: A survey

M Younis, IF Senturk, K Akkaya, S Lee, F Senel - Computer networks, 2014 - Elsevier
In wireless sensor networks (WSNs) nodes often operate unattended in a collaborative
manner to perform some tasks. In many applications, the network is deployed in harsh …

Uavs assisted network partition detection and connectivity restoration in wireless sensor and actor networks

A Zear, V Ranga - Ad Hoc Networks, 2022 - Elsevier
Wireless sensor networks have been extensively employed in different data collection and
monitoring applications because of their serviceability in harsh environments. The …

Multi-objective hierarchical algorithms for restoring wireless sensor network connectivity in known environments

TT Truong, KN Brown, CJ Sreenan - Ad Hoc Networks, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract A Wireless Sensor Network can become partitioned due to node failure, requiring
the deployment of additional relay nodes in order to restore network connectivity. This …

Obstacle-avoiding connectivity restoration based on quadrilateral Steiner tree in disjoint wireless sensor networks

B Chen, H Chen, C Wu - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the harsh environment, wireless sensor networks can suffer from a significant damage that
causes many nodes/links to fail simultaneously and the network to get splitted into multiple …

Optimized repair of a partitioned network topology

W Lalouani, M Younis, N Badache - Computer Networks, 2017 - Elsevier
We consider the problem of deploying the least count of relay nodes to restore connectivity
in a network that got partitioned into multiple disjoint segments. Such a problem has been …

Energy efficient model for recovery from multiple nodes failure in wireless sensor networks

V Jha, N Prakash, AK Mohapatra - Wireless Personal Communications, 2019 - Springer
Connectivity among deployed sensor nodes in wireless sensor network (WSN) is essential
for collection and transmission of sensed data. In harsh environmental conditions, it is …

A social potential fields approach for self-deployment and self-healing in hierarchical mobile wireless sensor networks

E González-Parada, J Cano-García, F Aguilera… - Sensors, 2017 - mdpi.com
Autonomous mobile nodes in mobile wireless sensor networks (MWSN) allow self-
deployment and self-healing. In both cases, the goals are:(i) to achieve adequate coverage; …

Obstacle-Avoiding Connectivity Restoration Based on Power Adjustment and Node's Movement in Disjoint Mobile Sensor Networks

CH Wu, HS Chen, WH Dai - 2016 International Conference on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobile sensor networks (MSNs) have many applications in recent years, especially in some
harsh environment, such as coastal and border protection, search-and-rescue, battlefield …

Partition-aware centrality measures for connectivity restoration in mobile sensor networks

IF Senturk - International Journal of Sensor Networks, 2019 - inderscienceonline.com
Mobile sensor networks (MSNs) often operate unattended in environments where human
intervention is limited. To sustain network operations, network connectivity must be …

Minimum cost flow based approach for connectivity restoration in WSN

H Essam, M Younis, E Shaaban - International Journal of …, 2018 - inderscienceonline.com
Some of the nodes a wireless sensor network (WSN) are critical for connectivity and their
failure may partition the network into multiple disjoint segments. This paper presents a …