EPMOSt: um sistema de monitoramento passivo energeticamente eficiente para redes de sensores sem fio

Abstract

Monitoring systems are important for debugging and analyzing Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN). In passive monitoring, a monitoring network needs to be deployed in addition to the network to be monitored, called target network. The monitoring network captures and analyzes packets sent by the target network. An energy-efficient passive monitoring system is necessary when there is a need to monitor a WSN in a real scenario because the lifetime of the monitoring network is extended and, consequently, the target network benefits from the monitoring for a longer time. In this thesis, initially, the main passive monitoring systems proposed for WSN have been identified, analyzed and compared. During the literature review, no passive monitoring system for WSN that aims to reduce the energy consumption of the monitoring network has been identified. Therefore, this thesis proposes an Energy-efficient Passive MOnitoring System for WSN (EPMOSt) that extends the lifetime of the monitoring network. EPMOSt uses two mechanisms to reduce the energy consumption of the monitoring network: sniffer election and aggregation of headers. By using the sniffer election, in general only one sniffer (a node of the monitoring network) captures packets sent by a given node of the target network, thereby reducing the transmission of packets captured by the monitoring network and, thus, considerably reducing the energy consumption of this network. By using aggregation of headers, only the information present in the headers of captured packets is sent through the monitoring network. Thus, the headers of several packets may be sent in the same monitoring message, hence reducing the overhead of transmission and consequently reducing the energy consumption of the monitoring network. Experiments performed with real sensors and with a WSN simulator in various scenarios are conducted to evaluate the proposed monitoring system. The obtained results show the energy efficiency of the EPMOSt and the viability of using it to monitor WSN in real scenarios.