A Novel Approach for Fault Diagnosis in Wireless Sensor Networks

Boul Chandra Garai, Priyanka Das

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ISRO Satellite Centre, Bangalore, India.

DOI: 10.4236/cn.2013.52019                

Abstract

The following article has been retracted due to special reason of the author. This paper published in Vol.5 No. 2, 2013, has been removed from this site.

Keywords

System-Level Fault Diagnosis; Testing by Comparison; Wireless Sensor Networks; Distributed Diagnosis; Intermittent and Permanent Faults; Message Complexity; Identifiability

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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