Title
Efficient and Flexible Sensornet Checkpointing
Abstract
Developing sensornet software is difficult partly because of the limited visibility of the system state of deployed nodes. Sensornet checkpointing is a method that allows developers to save and restore full system state of nodes. We present four extensions to sensornet checkpointing–compression, binary diffs, selective checkpointing, and checkpoint inspection–that reduce the time required for checkpointing operations considerably, and improve the granularity at which system state can be examined and manipulated down to the variable level. We show through an experimental evaluation that the checkpoint sizes can be reduced by 70%-93%, and the time can be reduced by at least 50% because of these improvements. The reduced time and increased granularity benefits multiple checkpointing use cases, including automated testing, network visualization, and software debugging.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1007/978-3-319-04651-8_4
EWSN
DocType
Volume
ISSN
Conference
8354
0302-9743
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
17
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Andreas Löscher141.56
Nicolas Tsiftes265644.63
Thiemo Voigt33458250.13
vlado handziski457050.64