Reliability modeling of wireless sensors
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Date of Original Version
7-1-2013
Abstract
The accuracy of system reliability analysis depends on realistic estimation of failure parameters at the component-level. This paper models the reliability of wireless sensor nodes under three different scenarios, contributing toward reliability analysis of wireless sensor network systems. Under Scenario 1, a sensor node is kept activated and consumes constant energy throughout its lifetime. Under Scenario 2, a sensor node alternates between two modes: sleep mode and active mode. The duration of each mode is fixed. It consumes less power during the sleep mode than during the active mode. Under Scenario 3, a sensor node also alternates between sleep and active modes but the duration of each mode is not fixed. In particular, the duration of the active mode is bounded and follows a certain distribution. However, the time to activate the sensor node is fixed. Numerical example results show that sensor node working under Scenario 3 is the most reliable and offers longest lifetime among the three scenarios while Scenario 1 is the least reliable one. © 2013 IEEE.
Publication Title, e.g., Journal
Proceedings - Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium
Citation/Publisher Attribution
Wang, Chaonan, Liudong Xing, Vinod M. Vokkarane, and Yan Sun. "Reliability modeling of wireless sensors." Proceedings - Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium (2013). doi: 10.1109/RAMS.2013.6517640.
