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Fault Detection in WSNs - An Energy Efficiency Perspective Towards Human-Centric WSNs

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Energy efficiency is a key factor to prolong the lifetime of wireless sensor networks (WSNs). This is particularly true in the design of human-centric wireless sensor networks (HCWSN) where sensors are more and more embedded and they have to work in resource-constraint settings. Resource limitation has a significant impact on the design of a WSN and the adopted fault detection method. This paper investigates a number of fault detection approaches and proposes a fault detection framework based on an energy efficiency perspective. The analysis and design guidelines given in this paper aims at representing a first step towards the design of energy-efficient detection approaches in resource-constraint WSN, like HCWSNs.

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This paper has been supported by the China Scholarship Council during Yue Zhang’s visit at DTU in the context of the IDEA4CPS project and National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61361136002).

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  1. DTU COMPUTE, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark

    Charalampos Orfanidis

  2. Shanghai Key Lab for Trustworthy Computing, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

    Yue Zhang

  3. Centre for Applied Autonomous Sensor Systems, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden

    Nicola Dragoni

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Orfanidis, C., Zhang, Y., Dragoni, N. (2015). Fault Detection in WSNs - An Energy Efficiency Perspective Towards Human-Centric WSNs. In: Jezic, G., Howlett, R., Jain, L. (eds) Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 38. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19728-9_24

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