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Fault Tolerant Three Dimensional Environment Monitoring Using Wireless Sensor Networks
McNair,Janise		Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept., University of Florida
Guo,Yuan		Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept., University of Florida
Fault Tolerant Three Dimensional Environment Monitoring Using Wireless Sensor Networks One important application for wireless sensor networks is environment monitoring, which may include military facility security monitoring, industrial working field monitoring or wild fire monitoring. Fault tolerance is one of the primary objectives of current research for the environment monitoring oriented sensor network. To ensure the fault tolerance of the monitoring task in the three-dimensional settings, one way is to provide safe modes using redundancy. Beside redundancy, the sensor network deployment method is also an important factor to fault tolerance. In this paper, we investigate the relationship between fault tolerance and the randomness of deployment methods and examine the tradeoff between the sensor network lifetime and the equipment cost.
Mr. Yuan Guo is a PhD candidate in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Florida. He received a Master's Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Florida in 2004. His research interests include the cost efficiency and reliability issues of wireless sensor networks.