Interactive and Extensible Framework for Execution and Monitoring of Wireless Sensor Networks

As sensor networks become more prevalent in complex and sophisticated application domains, there is need for a simple execution and monitoring environment for repeatable experimentation and for easy transfer to in-situ real world environments. We have developed an environment for the execution and monitoring of sensor network services. It supports the requirements for the verification and testing of sensor network services, whether simulated, emulated, or real. The running of simulated, emulated, and real sensor networks allows different levels of abstraction and virtualization necessary for the verification and performance evaluation of sensor network applications and protocols. ISEE is an interactive sensor network execution environment that allows for control and access to simulated, emulated, and real sensor networks. The control and access environment provides remote execution, logging, interaction, and analysis facilities independent of the implementation of the sensor network. This framework allows for extensibility, scenario creation, and experiment repeatability. This provides visibility and repeatability to sensor network experimentation that may not be otherwise available. The combination of our framework with our distributed service framework allows for reactive and language independent user and developer interaction to a sensor networks