Imran et al. [29] illustrated a distributed algorithm called Volunteer-Instigated Connectivity
Restoration Algorithm (VCR) to repair served connectivity while imposingminimal overhead
on the nodes. The idea is to choose the neighbors of a failed actor as volunteer to restore
the connectivity by exploiting their partially utilized transmission range and by repositioning
closer to the failed actor. The rationale of VCR is based on instinctive social behavior that can be observed frequently in most of creatures. For example, in case of a persons death in our
social environment, themost closely concerned peoples among many acquaintances examine
their availability based on their commitments and voluntarily take up the responsibilities in
addition to their own responsibilities. Similarly, in VCR the failure of any node is detected by
immediate neighbor actors, because they are directly affected. These affected actors examine
their proximity to failure actor node and partially utilized their transmission range in order
to decide whether to participate in the partitioning recovery or not. The actors which will
participate in the process are called volunteer actors (VAs). The volunteer actors jointly take
up the responsibility in order to restore lost connectivity. The actor nodes that could not help
in recovery process due to some unfavorable environment conditions are called horrid actors
(HA).