One of the important design criteria for distributedsystems and their applications is their reliability and robustness to hardware and software failures. the increase in complexity, interconnectedness, dependency and...
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(纸本)9780769528670
One of the important design criteria for distributedsystems and their applications is their reliability and robustness to hardware and software failures. the increase in complexity, interconnectedness, dependency and the asynchronous interactions between the components that include hardware resources (computers, servers, network devices), and software (application services, middleware, web services, etc.) makes the fault detection and tolerance a challenging research problem. In this paper, we present an innovative approach based on statistical and data mining techniques to detect faults (hardware or software) and also identify the source of the fault. In our approach, we monitor and analyze in realtime all the interactions between all the components of a distributed system. We used data mining and supervised learning techniques to obtain the rules that can accurately model the normal interactions among these components. Our anomaly analysis engine will immediately produce an alert whenever one or more of the interaction rules that capture normal operations is violated due to a software or hardware failure. We evaluate the effectiveness of our approach and its performance to detect software faults that we inject asynchronously, and compare the results for different noise level.
We propose a methodology to identify nodes in fully anonymized wireless networks using collections of very simple sensors. Based on time series of counts of anonymous packets provided by the sensors, we estimate the n...
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We consider sensor scheduling as the optimal observability problem for partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDP). this model fits to the cases where a Markov process is observed by a single sensor which n...
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(纸本)9780769527888
We consider sensor scheduling as the optimal observability problem for partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDP). this model fits to the cases where a Markov process is observed by a single sensor which needs to be dynamically adjusted or by a set of sensors which are selected one at a time in a way that maximizes the information acquisition from the process. Similar to conventional POMDP problems, in this model the control action is based on all past measurements;however here this action is not for the control of state process, which is autonomous, but it is for influencing the measurement of that process. this POMDP is a controlled version of the hidden Markov process, and we show that its optimal observability problem can be formulated as an average cost Markov decision process (MDP) scheduling problem. In this problem, a policy is a rule for selecting sensors or adjusting the measuring device based on the measurement history. Given a policy, we can evaluate the estimation entropy for the joint statemeasurement processes which inversely measures the observability of state process for that policy. Considering estimation entropy as the cost of a policy, we show that the problem offinding optimal policy is equivalent to an average cost MDP scheduling problem where the cost function is the entropy function over the belief space. this allows the application of the policy iteration algorithm forfinding the policy achieving minimum estimation entropy, thus optimum observability.
this paper presents a distributed system for remote monitoring of vehicle diagnostics and geographical position. this is achieved by using on-board microcomputer system, called On-Board Smart Box (OBSB), General Packe...
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(纸本)9781424410309
this paper presents a distributed system for remote monitoring of vehicle diagnostics and geographical position. this is achieved by using on-board microcomputer system, called On-Board Smart Box (OBSB), General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) and a remote server. the OBSB which is equipped with an integrated Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver is empowered by a software application that manages the processes of local data acquisition and transmission of the acquired data to the remote server via GPRS. When programmed with speed limits in a certain geographical region, the OBSB allows the traffic control authority to supervise violations of speed limits from inside vehicles rather than outside supervision via certain checkpoints. Appropriate vocal and text warning messages are issued when a vehicle exceeds the permitted speed limit at a certain location. A prototype system is designed and implemented with a small number of sensors. On-road experiments have demonstrated the robustness, efficiency and applicability of the proposed system.
We present a new distributed approach that establishes reputation-based trust among sensor nodes in order to identify malfunctioning and malicious sensor nodes and minimize their impact on applications. Our method ada...
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the ieee 802.11 standard for Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) employs a mechanism for Medium Access Control (MAC), named distributed Coordination Function (DCF), which is based, on Carrier Sense Multiple Access wi...
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(纸本)9781424410309
the ieee 802.11 standard for Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) employs a mechanism for Medium Access Control (MAC), named distributed Coordination Function (DCF), which is based, on Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance (CSMA/CA). the collision avoidance mechanism uses the random backoff prior to each frame transmission attempt. the random nature of the backoff reduces the collision probability, but cannot eliminate completely these collisions. It is well known that as the number of con tending stations increases, the number of collisions is also likely to increase and the performance of the 802.11 WLAN is significantly compromised. In this paper, we propose a novel distributed MAC protocol, named Reduced Collision MAC (RC-MAC). In our algorithm, a station will access the channel by following a cyclic method. After a certain period of contention resolution, the stations will be simply organized in a cycle and each of them will access the channel while its turn comes. In this case, there is no more collision in the future and the bandwidth is used efficiently. through extensive simulations, we show that RCMAC achieves a significant increase in the overall performance compared to the standard 802.11 DCF.
the proceedings contain 112 papers. the topics discussed include: a performance evaluation of ontology-based context reasoning;promoting efficiency and separation of concerns through a hybrid model based on ontologies...
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(纸本)0769527884
the proceedings contain 112 papers. the topics discussed include: a performance evaluation of ontology-based context reasoning;promoting efficiency and separation of concerns through a hybrid model based on ontologies for context-aware computing;hoarding context information with context clusters;localization for intermittently connected ad hoc networks;operator-driven peer-to-peer service platform for mobile environments;securing broadcast based ad hoc routing protocols;a ubiquitous m-learning framework for network centric operations;context-aware model in a ubiquitous learning environment;data quality and query cost in wireless sensor networks;localization and coverage for high density sensor networks;sensor scheduling for optimal observability using estimation entropy;static path planning for mobile beacons to localize sensor networks;and challenges in the tracking and prediction of scheduled-vehicle journeys.
Mobility is a great chance for embedding Computer Supported Cooperative Learning/Work (CSCL/W) in users' everyday life. One of the most important values, added through the use of technology, is the ability to brid...
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(纸本)9780769527888
Mobility is a great chance for embedding Computer Supported Cooperative Learning/Work (CSCL/W) in users' everyday life. One of the most important values, added through the use of technology, is the ability to bridge different learning situations across time and space. this can be accomplished through virtual knowledge spaces which provide means to work over a period of time with different people located at different places. However, most current mobility s-supporting CSCL/W platforms lack facilities for distributing cooperation objects in a way that make them available when needed. Our approachfor solving this problem is to provide a network-transparent persistence layer for storing and accessing objects in the network of participating nodes. Our solution takes the needs of CSCW applications into account and uses state of the art mechanisms for object distribution and load balancing.
As a key approach to achieve energy efficiency in sensor networks, sensing coverage has been studied extensively. Researchers have designed many coverage protocols to provide various kinds of service guarantees on the...
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False data injection is a severe attack that compromised sensor nodes ("moles"1) can launch. these moles inject large amount of bogus traffic that can lead to application failures and exhausted network resou...
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