Z-Monitor: A protocol analyzer for IEEE 802.15.4-based low-power wireless networks

详细信息    查看全文

• 作者：Stefano Tennina ; ¹ ; ^a ; ^{tennina@westaquila.com" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; ^{stefano@tennina.net" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; ^{sotna@isep.ipp.pt" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author}Author Vitae ; Olfa Gaddour^b ; ^c ; ^{olfa.gaddour@ceslab.org" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author}Author Vitae ; Anis Koubâ ; a^c ; ^d ; ^{aska@isep.ipp.pt" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author}Author Vitae ; Fernando Royo² ; ^e ; ^{froyo@dsi.uclm.es" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author}Author Vitae ; Má ; rio Alves² ; ^f ; ^{mjf@isep.ipp.pt" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author}Author Vitae ; Mohamed Abid^b ; ^{mohamed.abid@enis.rnu.tn" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author}Author Vitae
• 关键词：Low power wireless network ; Protocol analyzer ; IEEE 802.15.4 ; 6LoWPAN/RPL ; ZigBee ; Real deployment
• 刊名：Computer Networks
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：11 February 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：95
• 期：Complete
• 页码：77-96
• 全文大小：5041 K

文摘

Network sniffers are invaluable tools for designing, testing, commissioning and running distributed embedded systems. They become even more useful if these systems build on low-power wireless networks (LoWPAN), particularly when these scale in density and/or space and impose stringent quality-of-service requirements. This paper presents Z-Monitor, a low-cost and open-source network/protocol analyzer for LoWPANs. Z-Monitor is better than existing solutions since it combines the following features all-together: it covers the most widely used LoWPAN protocols, namely IEEE 802.15.4, 6LoWPAN, RPL and ZigBee; packet sniffing can be performed by any IEEE 802.15.4-compliant node, e.g., TelosB or MicaZ, requiring no extra hardware; the code is in Java (host PC), so it is OS-agnostic, and is freely available as open-source; Z-Monitor provides an user-friendly graphical user interface and a complete set of functionalities; nonetheless, Z-Monitor software architecture and programming approach are modular, so it is easily adaptable and extensible. We demonstrate and validate Z-Monitor in several LoWPAN network scenarios/settings and sites, ranging from a small-scale laboratory test-bed to a 400+ real-world deployment.