An Efficient Nodes Failure Recovery Management Algorithm for Mobile Sensor Networks

Abstract

Wireless sensor networks are not prone to harsh environments and may fail due to various reasons. Failure of sensor nodes causes partitioning of network into various small segments and restricts the communication of nodes. Due to the significant importance of restoration mechanisms, many approaches have been proposed in the literature so far. However, these approaches do not focus on uniform distribution of sensor nodes before the occurrence of failure. This paper fulfills the shortcoming in the literature by proposing a Uniform Distribution and Recovery Algorithm (UDRA) in two parts. The first part (prefailure algorithm) focuses on preparing the mobile sensor nodes to be ready for the failure beforehand by maintaining half of their communication distance between them. Also, it uses a novel method of directional matrix based on one-hop information. By using this method, each mobile node declares itself as cut-vertex (CV), intermediate node, or leaf node. The second part of the algorithm (postfailure algorithm) gives complete recovery procedure in the network by its recovery nodes. The extensive simulations prove that the proposed algorithm supersedes the existing approaches.