Sustainability of Self-Configuring Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless sensor networks have recently become an important research area due to critical applications, e.g., in health monitoring and security. Those applications impose requirements for sustained, reliable, and fault-tolerant operation. We introduce a new ad-hoc wireless architecture in which forwarding is based on associativity and implicit dynamic gradients rather than explicit node-to-node connectivity. We show how our routing scheme forwards sensor data along fuzzy and intentionally redundant paths to provide for reliability and fault-tolerance.

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