On the Need for Passive Monitoring in Sensor Networks

Awad A, Nebel R, German R, Dressler F (2008)

Publication Type: Conference contribution

Publication year: 2008

Edited Volumes: Proceedings - 11th EUROMICRO Conference on Digital System Design Architectures, Methods and Tools, DSD 2008

Pages Range: 693-699

Conference Proceedings Title: Proc. of 11th EUROMICRO Conf. on Digital System Design - Architectures, Methods and Tools

Event location: Parma IT

URI: http://www7.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/~akarim/bib/pdf/awad2008need.pdf

DOI: 10.1109/DSD.2008.12

Abstract

Debugging and analyzing Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are important tasks for improving the quality and performance of the network. In this paper, Pimoto is to be presented, which is a distributed passive monitoring system implemented for debugging and analyzing WSNs. It is based on a hierarchical structure allowing to monitor different networks simultaneously and to analyze the obtained information at a dedicated PC. The system relies on three components. The first element is the monitoring node. It intercepts the radio packets in the vicinity and sends received packet information to a gateway using a second radio interface in order to prevent intrinsic interactions with the sensor network operation. The gateway has the ability to communicate directly with the monitoring node and to transfer all the collected monitoring data to the third component, a dedicated PC (server), in the hierarchy using standard TCP/IP communication. The packets are analyzed and visualized on the server using the standard network monitoring and analyzing tool Wireshark. The most important characteristic of this monitoring concept is the passive operation, i.e. the normal operation in the WSN is not influenced by the analyzer. © 2008 IEEE.

Authors with CRIS profile

Abdalkarim Awad Computer Science 7 (Computer Networks and Communication Systems) Reinhard German Computer Science 7 (Computer Networks and Communication Systems)

How to cite

APA:

Awad, A., Nebel, R., German, R., & Dressler, F. (2008). On the Need for Passive Monitoring in Sensor Networks. In Proc. of 11th EUROMICRO Conf. on Digital System Design - Architectures, Methods and Tools (pp. 693-699). Parma, IT.

MLA:

Awad, Abdalkarim, et al. "On the Need for Passive Monitoring in Sensor Networks." Proceedings of the DSD 2008, Parma 2008. 693-699.

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