On selecting a reliable topology in Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have a wide range of applications including smart home and environmental monitoring systems. Sensors in such systems gather and propagate critical information to sinks (data collectors). Reliability is a crucial issue in these networks but the wireless medium is subject to interference and noise that can disrupt transmissions. Thus we design a reliable routing topology construction framework for WSNs and evaluate the proposed reliable topologies' performance. We observe that there are tradeoffs of reliability, energy consumption and path properties that applications can take advantage of.