MoMi: model-based diagnosis middleware for sensor networks

  • Authors:
  • Adriaan de Jong;Matthias Woehrle;Koen Langendoen

  • Affiliations:
  • Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands;ETH Zurich, Switzerland;Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Middleware Tools, Services and Run-Time Support for Sensor Networks
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Numerous deployments of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have shown that intricate problems are introduced by deploying sensor nodes in an unknown and dynamic environment. Consequently, a vital part of a WSN deployment is the supervision of the sensor nodes and detection of abnormalities in their operation. Previous approaches have devised hand-crafted solutions to detect application-specific problems. This work proposes a generic middleware component, named MoMi, to detect such problems in a systematic way. Given a description of normal system behavior MoMi uses a Model-Based Diagnosis (MBD) framework to present the likely causes of system abnormalities to an administrator. This paper demonstrates a proof of concept implementation of MBD on sensor nodes and presents examples of its applicability for typical WSN applications.