Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks

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Fault Tolerant Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks

Ataul Bari and Jin Jiang

The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

Arunita Jaekel

The University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada

CONTENTS

7.1    Introduction

7.2    Faults in IWSNs

7.2.1    Sources of Faults in IWSNs

7.2.2    Fault Detection in IWSNs

7.2.3    Fault Recovery in IWSNs

7.2.4    Network Faults in IWSNs

7.3    Fault Handling in IWSN Standards

7.3.1    ZigBee Networks

7.3.2    WirelessHART Networks

7.3.3    ISA100.11a Networks

7.4    Fault-Tolerant IWSN Design

7.4.1    Fault Tolerant Routing

7.4.2    Fault Tolerant Node Placement and Clustering

7.5    Conclusions

References

7.1    Introduction

Although sensors ...