
464 The State of the Art in Intrusion Prevention and Detection
19.5.4 repairing a broken path and ohc re-initialization
If, in any case, any node between the source node and the base station fails, it could make one or
more paths useless. Eventually, in such a case, all the downstream nodes along that particular path
get disconnected from the base station. To repair such a broken path, we use the stored upstream
knowledge of the sensors. We know that, in the rst phase, each downstream node stores the IDs of
the one-hop upstream senders of the control message. So this knowledge could be used for repairing
the path quickly.
Let us illustrate it ...