An evolutionary framework for routing protocol analysis in wireless sensor networks

  • Authors:

  • Doina Bucur;Giovanni Iacca;Giovanni Squillero;Alberto Tonda

  • Affiliations:

  • Johann Bernoulli Institute, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands, INCAS3, Assen, The Netherlands;INCAS3, Assen, The Netherlands;Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy;INRA UMR 782 GMPA, Thiverval-Grignon, France

  • Venue:
  • EvoApplications'13 Proceedings of the 16th European conference on Applications of Evolutionary Computation
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are widely adopted for applications ranging from surveillance to environmental monitoring. While powerful and relatively inexpensive, they are subject to behavioural faults which make them unreliable. Due to the complex interactions between network nodes, it is difficult to uncover faults in a WSN by resorting to formal techniques for verification and analysis, or to testing. This paper proposes an evolutionary framework to detect anomalous behaviour related to energy consumption in WSN routing protocols. Given a collection protocol, the framework creates candidate topologies and evaluates them through simulation on the basis of metrics measuring the radio activity on nodes. Experimental results using the standard Collection Tree Protocol show that the proposed approach is able to unveil topologies plagued by excessive energy depletion over one or more nodes, and thus could be used as an offline debugging tool to understand and correct the issues before network deployment and during the development of new protocols.