An Evaluation of Intellectus WSN Monitoring and Debugging Tool Using the Indriya Testbed

Abstract

Within wireless sensor networks (WSN), network topology and connectivity is one of the key elements that needs to be known in order to perform fault detection and isolation identification. Knowledge of connectivity is fundamental to understanding the operation of a given sensor network. The Intellect us methodology described herein can be used to monitor such connectivity. This paper evaluates Intellect us through the injection of particular test cases within a test bed, Intellect us is capable of building an overview of a network topology as a bi-product of such experiments which assists in the better understanding of the real WSN (link connectivity, network topology and sensor node roles). Spatial and temporal correlations from each nodes local decision can, when aggregated, provide a global overview of the topology network.