Increasing reliability of a TSCH network for the industry 4.0

Time Slotted Channel Hopping (TSCH) networks are emerging as a promising technology for the Internet of Things and the Industry 4.0 where ease of deployment, reliability, short latency, flexibility and adaptivity are required. Our goal is to improve reliability of data gathering in such wireless sensor networks. We present three redundancy patterns to build a reliable path from a source to a destination. The first one is the well-known two node-Disjoint paths. The second one is based on a Triangular pattern, and the third one on a Braided pattern. A comparative evaluation is carried out to analyze the reliability achieved, the number of failures tolerated, the number of message copies generated and the energy consumed by each node to ensure that at least one copy of the message is delivered to the destination. These results are validated by simulations.