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Detailed diagnosis of performance anomalies in sensornets

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Tony O'Donovan,

Nicolas Tsiftes,

Cormac J. SreenanAuthors Info & Claims

HotEmNets '10: Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Hot Topics in Embedded Networked Sensors

Article No.: 9, Pages 1 - 5

https://doi.org/10.1145/1978642.1978654

Published: 28 June 2010 Publication History

Abstract

We address the problem of analysing performance anomalies in sensor networks. In this paper, we propose an approach that uses the local flash storage of the motes for logging system data, in combination with online statistical analysis. Our results show not only that this is a feasible method but that the overhead is significantly lower than that of communication-centric methods, and that interesting patterns can be revealed when calculating the correlation of large data sets of separate event types.

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https://doi.org/10.1109/WoWMoM.2012.6263784
Lamichhane BMudda SRegazzoni FPuiatti A(2012)LEXCOMM: A low energy, secure and flexible communication protocol for a heterogenous body sensor networkProceedings of 2012 IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics10.1109/BHI.2012.6211564(273-276)Online publication date: Jan-2012
https://doi.org/10.1109/BHI.2012.6211564
Brown JMcCarthy BRoedig UVoigt TSreenan C(2011)BurstProbeProceedings of the 8th European conference on Wireless sensor networks10.5555/1966251.1966269(195-210)Online publication date: 23-Feb-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1966251.1966269
Hoang Anh Nguyen Forster APuccinelli DGiordano S(2011)Sensor node lifetime: An experimental study2011 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PERCOM Workshops)10.1109/PERCOMW.2011.5766869(202-207)Online publication date: Mar-2011
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O'Donovan TSreenan C(2011)Deployment alternatives for performance debugging in wireless sensor networks2011 IEEE SENSORS Proceedings10.1109/ICSENS.2011.6127244(191-194)Online publication date: Oct-2011
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Brown JMcCarthy BRoedig UVoigt TSreenan C(2011)BurstProbe: Debugging Time-Critical Data Delivery in Wireless Sensor NetworksWireless Sensor Networks10.1007/978-3-642-19186-2_13(195-210)Online publication date: 2011
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