Wireless Mesh Network Monitoring: Design, Implementation and Experiments

Francoise Sailhan (1, 2) , Liam Fallon (1) , Karl Quinn (1) , Paddy Farell (1) , Sarah Collins (1) , Daryl Parker (1) , Samir Ghamri-Doudane (1, 3) , Yangcheng Huang (1)

1 Ericsson Research
2 LIFC - Laboratoire d’informatique de l’université de Franche-Comté
3 Phare

Mesh networks conveniently complement infrastructurebased networks, allowing devices to spontaneously form a network and connect with other networks. However, effective service provisioning requires a network monitoring solution with adequate support for topology data dissemination and diagnosis, due to the underlying network dynamics and the absence of pre-existing network infrastructure. In addition, monitoring systems have to face a number of challenges relating to autonomy, robustness and scalability. To this end, we have created a self-organised management overlay that homogeneously and dynamically organises devices into a cluster-based hierarchy on which monitored data is disseminated. Scalability of the monitoring system is achieved through the minimisation of the generated traffic, as a result of the optimised design. We have implemented the proposed monitoring system and evaluated through experiments the resulting performance.

Domaines: Informatique [cs]

Francoise Sailhan, Liam Fallon, Karl Quinn, Paddy Farell, Sarah Collins, et al.. Wireless Mesh Network Monitoring: Design, Implementation and Experiments. IEEE Workshop on Distributed Autonomous Network Management Systems (DANMS), Oct 2007, Washington, DC, United States. ⟨hal-03031133⟩