A Constraint Programming Approach to the Additional Relay Placement Problem in Wireless Sensor Networks
Publication Type:
Refereed Original Article
Abstract:
A Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is composed of many sensor nodes which transmit their data wirelessly over a multi-hop network to data sinks. Since WSNs are subject to node failures, the network topology should be robust, so that when a failure does occur, data delivery can continue from all surviving nodes. A WSN is k-robust if an alternate length-constrained route to a sink is available for each surviving node after the failure of up to k-1 nodes. A WSN is strongly k-robust if there are k disjoint length-constrained routes to a sink for each node. Determining whether a network is k-robust is polynomial. However, determining whether a network is strongly k-robust is an NP-complete problem. We develop a Constraint Programming (CP) approach for deciding strongly k-robustness that outperforms a Mixed-Integer Programming (MIP) model on larger problems. A network can be made (strongly) robust by
deploying extra relay nodes. We extend our CP approach to an optimisation approach by using QuickXplain to search for a minimal set of relays, and compare it to a state-of-the-art local search approach.
Digital Object Identifer (DOI):
10.1007/s10601-015-9188-8
ISSN:
1383-7133
Publication Status:
Published
Publication Date:
05/04/2015
Journal:
Constraints
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Institution:
National University of Ireland, Cork (UCC)
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