Generic Reliability Analysis Model of IoT : Agriculture use case

Abstract

In this paper, we use Discrete Event Systems (DES) to conduct a novel reliability analysis regarding network longevity and sensor nodes (SNs) energy failure in the agriculture domain. Reliability is a critical aspect of Agriculture Internet of Things (IoT) networks. As a result, we propose an operation-based reliability framework for the agriculture IoT networks based on the following: (i) theoretical derivation of a reliability framework from a real-time parametric perspective at the local network level, and (ii) comprehensive assessment of the reliability of agriculture IoT networks using the network lifetime metric. We have proposed a DES model that is used to implement a reliability framework that analyses energy expenditure to optimize network premature failure of operations.