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Martinez, Jose-FernanCorresponding AuthorSendra, JuanaAuthorLopez, LourdesAuthor

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June 9, 2019
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Resilient Wireless Sensor Networks Using Topology Control: A Review

Publicated to: SENSORS. 15 (10): 24735-24770 - 2015-10-01 15(10), DOI: 10.3390/s151024735

Authors:

Huang, YJ; Martínez, JF; Sendra, J; López, L
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Affiliations

Univ Politecn Madrid, Ctr Invest Tecnol Software & Sistemas Multimedia, Madrid 28031, Spain - Author

Abstract

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) may be deployed in failure-prone environments, and WSNs nodes easily fail due to unreliable wireless connections, malicious attacks and resource-constrained features. Nevertheless, if WSNs can tolerate at most losing k - 1 nodes while the rest of nodes remain connected, the network is called k - connected. k is one of the most important indicators for WSNs' self-healing capability. Following a WSN design flow, this paper surveys resilience issues from the topology control and multi-path routing point of view. This paper provides a discussion on transmission and failure models, which have an important impact on research results. Afterwards, this paper reviews theoretical results and representative topology control approaches to guarantee WSNs to be k - connected at three different network deployment stages: pre-deployment, post-deployment and re-deployment. Multi-path routing protocols are discussed, and many NP-complete or NP-hard problems regarding topology control are identified. The challenging open issues are discussed at the end. This paper can serve as a guideline to design resilient WSNs.
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Keywords

fault tolerancefault-tolerantresilienceself-healingtopology controlAd-hoc networksAttack toleranceComplex networksConnected dominating setsDisjoint pathsFault toleranceFault-detectionFault-tolerantGeometric graphsMinimum spanning-treesMultihop networksRelay node placementResilienceSelf-healingTopology controlWireless sensor networks

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal SENSORS due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2015, it was in position 16/27, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Electrochemistry.

Independientemente del impacto esperado determinado por el canal de difusión, es importante destacar el impacto real observado de la propia aportación.

Según las diferentes agencias de indexación, el número de citas acumuladas por esta publicación hasta la fecha 2026-04-25:

  • Google Scholar: 32
  • WoS: 18
  • Scopus: 21
  • Europe PMC: 2
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Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2026-04-25:

  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 38 (PlumX).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.
  • Assignment of a Handle/URN as an identifier within the deposit in the Institutional Repository: https://oa.upm.es/39908/

As a result of the publication of the work in the institutional repository, statistical usage data has been obtained that reflects its impact. In terms of dissemination, we can state that, as of

  • Views: 450
  • Downloads: 233
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Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (Huang, Yuanjiang) and Last Author (LOPEZ SANTIDRIAN, M. LOURDES).

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been MARTINEZ ORTEGA, JOSE FERNAN.

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Awards linked to the item

This work is supported by the European project Design, Monitoring and Operation of Adaptive Networked Embedded Systems (DEMANES) (project code ARTEMIS-JU:295372) and Ministerio de Industria, Energia y Turismo of Spain (project code ART-010000-2012-2).
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