A Novel Approach of Fault Management and Restoration of Network Services in IoT Cluster to Ensure Disaster Readiness

Fault detection and management is one of the key challenges for network management. In order to ensure stable services and high availability thereby reducing the downtime, an early detection of fault and early isolation of fault is inevitable. In this paper a novel detection and handling method combining the use of third parties modules with newly developed monitoring device (Tensai Gothalo) is proposed in order to control the network fault that guarantees robustness to network instability and assist the network administrator in making decisions. The proposed approach can be utilized for fault detection and handle those faults by providing alternate network path within a minimal downtime. Furthermore, it considers the potential fault in different segments of networks and explore the methods of restoration of services which are affected due to the faults by providing redundancy in each and every layers. Consideration of redundancy in each layer is applied in order to distribute and shift the burden between the network layers and balance their need for network restoration. Restoration of network services is provided by activating network services in IoT cluster while fault happens in a network. Furthermore, a fault alarm system assisted by Tensai Gothalo is implemented to guarantee the disaster readiness of network services. Finally, the relevant results of the proposed approach are then presented and analyzed.