Visualizing anomalies in sensor networks

  • Authors:
  • Qi Liao;Lei Shi;Yuan He;Rui Li;Zhong Su;Aaron Striegel;Yunhao Liu

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA;IBM Research, Beijing, China;Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, Hong Kong;Xi'an Jiao Tong University, Xi'an, China;IBM Research, Beijing, China;University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA;Tshinghua University & Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2011 conference
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Diagnosing a large-scale sensor network is a crucial but challenging task due to the spatiotemporally dynamic network behaviors of sensor nodes. In this demo, we present Sensor Anomaly Visualization Engine (SAVE), an integrated system that tackles the sensor network diagnosis problem using both visualization and anomaly detection analytics to guide the user quickly and accurately diagnose sensor network failures. Temporal expansion model, correlation graphs and dynamic projection views are proposed to effectively interpret the topological, correlational and dimensional sensor data dynamics and their anomalies. Through a real-world large-scale wireless sensor network deployment (GreenOrbs), we demonstrate that SAVE is able to help better locate the problem and further identify the root cause of major sensor network failures.