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A Novel Multi-Agent Model for Robustness with Component Failure and Malware Propagation in Wireless Sensor Networks

A wireless sensor network (WSN) is a group of sensors connected with a wireless communications infrastructure designed to monitor and send collected data to the primary server. The WSN is the cornerstone of the Internet of Things (IoT) and Industry 4.0. Robustness is an essential characteristic of W...

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Autores principales: Xu, Biao, Lu, Minyan, Zhang, Hong, Pan, Cong
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8309742/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34300612
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21144873
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description A wireless sensor network (WSN) is a group of sensors connected with a wireless communications infrastructure designed to monitor and send collected data to the primary server. The WSN is the cornerstone of the Internet of Things (IoT) and Industry 4.0. Robustness is an essential characteristic of WSN that enables reliable functionalities to end customers. However, existing approaches primarily focus on component reliability and malware propagation, while the robustness and security of cascading failures between the physical domain and the information domain are usually ignored. This paper proposes a cross-domain agent-based model to analyze the connectivity robustness of a system in the malware propagation process. The agent characteristics and transition rules are also described in detail. To verify the practicality of the model, three scenarios based on different network topologies are proposed. Finally, the robustness of the scenarios and the topologies are discussed.
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spelling pubmed-83097422021-07-25 A Novel Multi-Agent Model for Robustness with Component Failure and Malware Propagation in Wireless Sensor Networks Xu, Biao Lu, Minyan Zhang, Hong Pan, Cong Sensors (Basel) Article A wireless sensor network (WSN) is a group of sensors connected with a wireless communications infrastructure designed to monitor and send collected data to the primary server. The WSN is the cornerstone of the Internet of Things (IoT) and Industry 4.0. Robustness is an essential characteristic of WSN that enables reliable functionalities to end customers. However, existing approaches primarily focus on component reliability and malware propagation, while the robustness and security of cascading failures between the physical domain and the information domain are usually ignored. This paper proposes a cross-domain agent-based model to analyze the connectivity robustness of a system in the malware propagation process. The agent characteristics and transition rules are also described in detail. To verify the practicality of the model, three scenarios based on different network topologies are proposed. Finally, the robustness of the scenarios and the topologies are discussed. MDPI 2021-07-17 /pmc/articles/PMC8309742/ /pubmed/34300612 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21144873 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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title A Novel Multi-Agent Model for Robustness with Component Failure and Malware Propagation in Wireless Sensor Networks
title_full A Novel Multi-Agent Model for Robustness with Component Failure and Malware Propagation in Wireless Sensor Networks
title_fullStr A Novel Multi-Agent Model for Robustness with Component Failure and Malware Propagation in Wireless Sensor Networks
title_full_unstemmed A Novel Multi-Agent Model for Robustness with Component Failure and Malware Propagation in Wireless Sensor Networks
title_short A Novel Multi-Agent Model for Robustness with Component Failure and Malware Propagation in Wireless Sensor Networks
title_sort novel multi-agent model for robustness with component failure and malware propagation in wireless sensor networks
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8309742/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34300612
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21144873
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