Power watermarking: Facilitating power-based diagnosis of node silence in remote high-end sensing systems

Yong Yang, Lu Su, Mohammad Khan, Michael Lemay, Tarek Abdelzaher, Jiawei Han

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Abstract

Our prior work suggested the use of power traces of unresponsive sensor nodes to diagnose the cause of anomalous node silence, but suffers from its limitations in scalability. To address these issues, we propose a new concept of power watermarking, a diagnostic service that actively produces unique power watermarks for each system state of interest so as to convey system information over power measurements. Failures of applications, hardware, or the watermark generator result in different watermark combinations or absence thereof. Experiments demonstrate high diagnostic accuracy and energy efficiency, even in the presence of multiple applications of similar natural power consumption patterns.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 10th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, IPSN'11
Pages159-160
Number of pages2
StatePublished - 2011
Event10th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, IPSN'11 - Chicago, IL, United States
Duration: Apr 12 2011Apr 14 2011

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 10th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, IPSN'11

Other

Other10th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, IPSN'11
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityChicago, IL
Period4/12/114/14/11

Keywords

  • Energy
  • Sensor networks
  • Troubleshooting

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Information Systems

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