Near-Instant Fault Recovery and Ultra-Reliable Multi-Hop Wireless Sensor Networks
Nabeel I. Sulieman, Richard D. Gitlin · 2019
Diversity and Network Coding (DC-NC), which is the synergistic combination of Diversity Coding and Network Coding, was recently introduced to provide near instant link failure recovery and efficient transmission in a wide variety of network architectures. In this paper, DC-NC is applied to a multi-hop Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) and Diversity Coding (DC) is applied within each link in a multi-hop WSN to enable extremely high reliability with very rapid recovery from wireless link/node failures and the loss of data stream(s) at each link and also provide efficient transmission, which are very important metrics for WSNs. Furthermore, the reliability and rapid fault recovery can be extended to broadcasting applications, along with increased throughput.