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State monitoring is widely used for detecting critical events and abnormalities of distributed systems. As the scale of such systems grows and the degree of workload consolidation increases in Cloud data centers, node failures and performance interferences, especially transient ones, become the norm rather than the exception. Hence, distributed state monitoring tasks are often exposed to impaired...
Today's competitive business climate and the complexity of IT environments dictate efficient and cost effective service delivery and support of IT services. This is largely achieved through automating of routine maintenance procedures including problem detection, determination and resolution. System monitoring provides effective and reliable means for problem detection. Coupled with automated ticket...
Wide Area Measurement Systems (WAMS) are increasingly used to observe the static and dynamic performance of power systems. Synchronised phasor measurements are also a valuable wide-area input to control and protection schemes. It is important that PMUs perform correctly for the various purposes that the data is used for. Standard and type testing is valuable, but it is also necessary to have the capability...
This paper presents a single-channel programmable muscle stimulator. The charge balance of the proposed stimulator is achieved using the concept of the dual-slope analog-to-digital converter (ADC). This approach negates the need for precise current matching between cathodic and anodic current, which is usually required in order to achieve good charge balance. In the dual-slope concept, the charge...
To carry out the maintenance and analysis of communication networks, the network maintenance personnel must achieve real-time, accurate collection of signaling data of communication network. But the delay in the actual link signaling data transmission process is inevitable. If not take the delay correction will seriously affect the accuracy of the follow-up signaling message handling. This paper presents...
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have proliferated significantly in recent years. Nowadays they are used in many fields, such as military, environmental and industrial. Reliability and low latency are desirable characteristics of many WSN applications. In particular, time-critical WSN applications must be able to act according to the observed changes in the environment as quickly as possible, assuring...
Many algorithms have been proposed in the last decade to detect traffic anomalies in enterprise networks. However, most of these algorithms cannot detect anomalies that occur beyond enterprise boundaries. Anomaly monitoring and detection on end-to-end Internet paths, although important for network operations, is challenging due to lack of access and control over intermediate network devices. In this...
Currently, the wireless sensor networks QoS is confronted with many challenges. Wireless sensor networks has many characteristics, such as basing on the data, and facing application and dynamic characteristics. This paper emphatically analyzes the description of wireless sensor networks QoS and its QoS evaluation method. Then quantize the QoS index and Computes QoS indexes weights. Finally, based...
Monitoring the health of a sensor network is important for maintaining the health and normal operation of the network. For large-scale cost- effective monitoring, using inexpensive motes as sniffers is an attractive choice. In this paper, we quantify the capability and fidelity of mote-class sniffers for sensor network monitoring. In particular, we experimentally quantify the sustainable workload...
Bandwidth is one of the most common terms in digital communication as it represents the supported amount of data that a link or network path can send per unit of time. Multimedia application's performance is directly impacted by available bandwidth because these applications have diverse Quality of Service (QoS) requirements. Internet is now a necessary technology in our daily life, and because of...
Stepping stone attacks are often used by network intruders to hide their identities. To detect and block stepping stone attacks, a stepping stone detection scheme should be able to correctly identify a stepping-stone in a very short time and in real-time. However, the majority of past research has failed to indicate how long or how many packets it takes for the monitor to detect a stepping stone....
In this paper we propose a Packet-based measurement technique called Floating IP Active Measurement (FIPAM) that utilizes routing loop to measure Delay and Throughput in IP networks. Calculating these parameters in multi-provider and complex networks like Internet has became a challenge as most of current active measurement tools relying on ICMP and majority of today's networks block ICMP traffics...
Performing decentralized network fault diagnosis based on network traffic is challenging. Besides inherent stochastic behaviour of observations, measurements may be subject to errors degrading diagnosis timeliness and accuracy. In this paper we present a novel approach in which we aim to mitigate issues of measurement errors by quantifying uncertainty. The uncertainty information is applied in the...
Efficient estimation of global information is a common requirement for many wireless sensor network applications. Examples include counting the number of nodes alive in the network and measuring the scale of physically correlated events. These tasks must be accomplished at extremely low overhead due to the severe resource limitation of sensor nodes, which poses a challenge for large-scale sensor networks...
Detecting changes in stock prices is a well known problem in finance with important implications for monitoring and business intelligence. Forewarning of changes in stock price, can be made by the early detection of changes in the distributions of stock order numbers. In this paper, we address the change detection problem for streams of stock order numbers and propose a novel incremental detection...
Many measurement systems have been proposed in recent years to shed light on the internal performance of the Internet. Their common goal is to allow distributed applications to improve end-user experience. A common hurdle they face is the need to deploy yet another measurement infrastructure. In this work, we demonstrate that without any new measurement infrastructure or active probing we obtain composite...
This paper proposes a novel timeout scheduling scheme for data aggregation in wireless sensor networks, which adaptively configures both the length of timeout and the collecting period according to the potential level of event occurrence. At normal times, the proposed scheme decreases the length of timeout that is a waiting time for messages from child nodes, and it makes longer the collecting period...
We have proposed CoMPACT monitor that achieves scalable measurement of one-way delay distribution for each flow. CoMPACT monitor is technique that transforms one-way delay data obtained by active measurement by using passively monitored traffic data of the target flow. In a recent study, it was reported that by using an inter-probe time that has a Gamma distribution can improve the accuracy of simple...
Grids offer the potential to carry out difficult computing tasks and achieve superior aggregate performance. However, grids are highly complex systems. They consist of heterogeneous resources on disparate hosts from various virtual organizations interconnected via a mixture of communication standards. Monitoring grid resources allows grid schedulers to adapt to changes in the status of these remote...
CoMPACT monitor gives the one-way delay distribution of a target flow by using a transformation of one-way delay data obtained by active measurement. The transformation can be determined from passively monitored traffic data for the target flow of the measurement. In a recent study, it was reported that by using an inter-probe time that has a gamma distribution can improve the accuracy of simple active...
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