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Sensors 2012, 12, 14570-14591; doi:10.3390/s121114570 OPEN ACCESS sensors ISSN 1424-8220 /journal/sensors Article Providing Self-Healing Ability for Wireless Sensor Node by Using Reconfigurable Hardware Shenfang Yuan *, Lei Qiu, Shang Gao, Yao Tong and Weiwei Yang The State Key Lab of Mechanics and Control of Mechanical Structures, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 29# Yu Dao Street, Nanjing 210016, China; E-Mails: q (L.Q.); gsnuaa2003@163.com (S.G.); tongyao@ (Y.T.); yww222@ (W.Y.) * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: ysf@; Tel.: +86-25-8489-3460; Fax: +86-25-8489-2294. Received: 29 August 2012; in revised form: 20 September 2012 / Accepted: 24 October 2012 / Published: 29 October 2012 Abstract: Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have received tremendous attention over the past ten years. In engineering applications of WSNs, a number of sensor nodes are usually spread across some specific geographical area. Some of these nodes have to work in harsh environments. Dependability of the Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is very important for its successful applications in the engineering area. In ordinary research, when a node has a failure, it is usually discarded and the network is reorganized to ensure the normal operation of the WSN. Using appropriate WSN re-organization methods, though the sensor networks can be reorganized, this causes additional maintenance costs and sometimes still decreases the function of the networks. In those s