Formal Probabilistic Analysis of a Wireless Sensor Network for Forest Fire Detection

Maissa Elleuch
(Sfax University, Sfax, Tunisia)
Osman Hasan
(Concordia University, Montreal, Canada)
Sofiène Tahar
(Concordia University, Montreal, Canada)
Mohamed Abid
(Sfax University, Sfax, Tunisia)

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have been widely explored for forest fire detection, which is considered a fatal threat throughout the world. Energy conservation of sensor nodes is one of the biggest challenges in this context and random scheduling is frequently applied to overcome that. The performance analysis of these random scheduling approaches is traditionally done by paper-and-pencil proof methods or simulation. These traditional techniques cannot ascertain 100% accuracy, and thus are not suitable for analyzing a safety-critical application like forest fire detection using WSNs. In this paper, we propose to overcome this limitation by applying formal probabilistic analysis using theorem proving to verify scheduling performance of a real-world WSN for forest fire detection using a k-set randomized algorithm as an energy saving mechanism. In particular, we formally verify the expected values of coverage intensity, the upper bound on the total number of disjoint subsets, for a given coverage intensity, and the lower bound on the total number of nodes.

In Adel Bouhoula, Tetsuo Ida and Fairouz Kamareddine: Proceedings Fourth International Symposium on Symbolic Computation in Software Science (SCSS 2012), Gammarth, Tunisia, 15-17 December 2012, Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science 122, pp. 1–9.
Published: 30th July 2013.

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