Link failure and unreachable nodes due to interference from external devices are common problems in WSNs. These interferences can be a major inhibitor to node performance and network stability. In order to tolerate these failures, we propose an immune-inspired self healing system where an individual node can detect degradations in network performance, perform diagnostic tests, and provide automated immedi- ate response to recover the network to a stable state. We evaluate and compare the performance of our approach with other routing protocols on a testbed environment using TelosB hardware motes.

BibTex Entry

@inproceedings{Lim2012b,
 author = {H. K. Lau T. H. Lim and J Timmis and I. Bate},
 booktitle = {11th International Conference, ICARIS 2012},
 editor = {C. A. Coello and J. Greensmith and N. Krasnogor and P. Lio and G. Nicosia and M. Pavone},
 pages = {42-56},
 publisher = {Springer},
 series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
 title = {Immune-Inspired Self Healing in Wireless Sensor Networks},
 volume = {7597},
 year = {2012}
}