Design and Implementation of a Modular Wireless Sensor Network Sniffer

Authors

John C. McEachen, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, USA
Teo Hong Siang, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, USA
Georgios Kirykos, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, USA

Date of this Version

12-13-2006

Comments

Published in 5th Workshop on the Internet, Telecommunications and Signal Processing, December 11-13, Hobart, Australia. Edited by Beata J Wysocki & Tadeusz A Wysocki. ISBN: 0 9756934 2 5

Abstract

We present the design and implementation of a wireless packet sniffing application focused on the communications of TinyOS-based sensor networks. This modular, multi-threaded application allows robust analysis of transmitted frames in an easily understood format similar to tcpdump. The underlying software framework is presented and details of the implementation are discussed. Finally, verification of the application is performed using a basic TinyOS application.