A NHPP-Based Reliability Model of Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract:

As the Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are widely applied to various fields recent years, the quality of WSN has been increasingly concerned. Since reliability is the most important factor of quality, how to evaluate reliability of WSN through failure counting is our main subject. In this paper, we try to utilize NHPP theorem in the failure process of WSN and propose a reliability model based on NHPP. And also, the model validation is conducted by simulation.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 596)
• Pages: 877-882
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.596.877
• Online since: July 2014
• Authors: Bo Zhao, Jian Feng Yang*, Ming Zhao, Qi Li, Yan Liu
• Keywords: NHPP, Power-Law Poisson Process, Reliability, Wireless Sensor Network (WSN)

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