Testbeds and Research Infrastructures. Development of Networks and Communities. 6th International ICST Conference, TridentCom 2010, Berlin, Germany, May 18-20, 2010, Revised Selected Papers

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Distributed Ontology-Based Monitoring on the IBBT WiLab.t Infrastructure

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-17851-1_39,
        author={Stijn Verstichel and Eli Poorter and Tim Pauw and Pieter Becue and Bruno Volckaert and Filip Turck and Ingrid Moerman and Piet Demeester},
        title={Distributed Ontology-Based Monitoring on the IBBT WiLab.t Infrastructure},
        proceedings={Testbeds and Research Infrastructures. Development of Networks and Communities. 6th International ICST Conference, TridentCom 2010, Berlin, Germany, May 18-20, 2010, Revised Selected Papers},
        proceedings_a={TRIDENTCOM},
        year={2012},
        month={10},
        keywords={wsn wmn ontology semantics monitoring reasoning},
        doi={10.1007/978-3-642-17851-1_39}
    }
    
  • Stijn Verstichel
    Eli Poorter
    Tim Pauw
    Pieter Becue
    Bruno Volckaert
    Filip Turck
    Ingrid Moerman
    Piet Demeester
    Year: 2012
    Distributed Ontology-Based Monitoring on the IBBT WiLab.t Infrastructure
    TRIDENTCOM
    Springer
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-17851-1_39
Stijn Verstichel1,*, Eli Poorter1,*, Tim Pauw1,*, Pieter Becue1,*, Bruno Volckaert1,*, Filip Turck1,*, Ingrid Moerman1,*, Piet Demeester1,*
  • 1: Ghent University
*Contact email: stijn.verstichel@intec.UGent.be, eli.dePoorter@intec.UGent.be, tim.dePauw@intec.UGent.be, pieter.becue@intec.UGent.be, bruno.volckaert@intec.UGent.be, filip.deTurck@intec.UGent.be, ingrid.moerman@intec.UGent.be, piet.demeester@intec.UGent.be

Abstract

Testbeds as a means to evaluate protocol and software development are gaining importance, not least because of the oftentimes unpredictable influence of environmental behaviour. IBBT, the Interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband Technology, recognizes the importance of such testbeds and has therefore invested in WiLab.t, a wireless sensor and mesh testbed. It contains over 200 wireless and programmable nodes. The monitoring and management of such a testbed is very important so as to guarantee a proper functioning and stable environment to be used by researchers. This is however not a trivial task, even more so when in the future, the testbed is expanded with new devices and as such becomes a heterogeneous environment. Therefore, we have developed an ontology-based monitoring approach, which allows hiding the heterogeneity from the monitoring application and enables to process the data in a formal manner. Additionally, it allows adaptation according to characteristics of the local deployment, without the need to re-engineer the entire monitoring application every time alterations are made to the testbed.