Pair-wise reference-free fault detection in wireless sensor networks

Authors:
Chun Lo;Jerome P. Lynch;Mingyan Liu
Affiliations:
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA;University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA;University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Venue:
Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks
Year:
2012

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Abstract

This poster presents a distributed reference-free fault detection algorithm which is based on local pair-wise verification. We show there exist a linear relationship between the output of any pair of sensors if the system excitations can be aggregated as a single system input. Using this relationship, faulty sensors suffering from sparse spike errors can be identified with high accuracy by our algorithm. An appealing feature of our method is that existence of reference sensors and knowledge of system input are not required. preliminary performance analysis shows that the algorithm is scalable, robust and able to detect most of the faults exist in the sensors. Communication power is also greatly reduced by the distributed nature of the algorithm.