Title
Visibility: a new metric for protocol design
Abstract
This paper proposes a new sensornet protocol design goal: visibility. Visibility into behaviors at the network level will simplify debugging and ease the development process. We argue that increasing visibility is the responsibility of the network protocols themselves, and not solely the responsibility of existing debugging tools. We describe a quantitative visibility metric to evaluate and compare protocols, where visibility is defined as the energy cost of diagnosing the cause of a behavior in a protocol. The design and evaluation of Pull Collection Protocol, a novel multi-hop collection protocol, is an example of how to design for visibility without sacrificing throughput or node-level fairness. We also describe our optimizations for an existing protocol, Deluge, to increase its visibility and efficiency.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1145/1322263.1322271
SenSys
Keywords
Field
DocType
novel multi-hop collection protocol,network level,new sensornet protocol design,pull collection protocol,debugging tool,energy cost,existing protocol,network protocol,development process,quantitative visibility,sensor networks,sensor network,visibility,metrics
Network level,Visibility,Computer science,Computer network,Real-time computing,Protocol design,Throughput,Wireless sensor network,Debugging,Communications protocol,Distributed computing
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
37
1.63
19
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Megan Wachs11259.03
Jung Il Choi295679.60
Jung Woo Lee313113.74
Kannan Srinivasan41324117.98
Zhe Chen534370.20
Mayank Jain6100282.11
Philip Levis75510414.57