Self-configurable fault monitoring in ad-hoc networks

  • Authors:
  • Remi Badonnel;Radu State;Olivier Festor

  • Affiliations:
  • LORIA - INRIA Lorraine Technopole de Nancy-Brabois - Campus Scientifique 615, rue du Jardin Botanique - B.P. 101, 54600 Villers Les Nancy Cedex, France;LORIA - INRIA Lorraine Technopole de Nancy-Brabois - Campus Scientifique 615, rue du Jardin Botanique - B.P. 101, 54600 Villers Les Nancy Cedex, France;LORIA - INRIA Lorraine Technopole de Nancy-Brabois - Campus Scientifique 615, rue du Jardin Botanique - B.P. 101, 54600 Villers Les Nancy Cedex, France

  • Venue:
  • Ad Hoc Networks
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

While fault monitoring is a well-known issue in fixed wired networks, ad-hoc networks provide new challenges with respect to this issue: in particular, the monitoring task may be hindered at any time by the impossibility to observe a given node. This paper proposes a fault monitoring approach for ad-hoc networks which takes into account this constraint. Our approach is based on an information theory measure suitable to the intermittence of ad-hoc nodes and capable to detect network failures by inference. We define a distributed monitoring scheme with several collaborative detection methods, and we detail a self-configuration mechanism based on the K-means classification algorithm. We show how this solution can be integrated into a management architecture and evaluate its performance based an extensive set of simulations.