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A First Step Towards a Dependability Framework for Smart Environment Applications

Authors:
Ehsan Ullah Warriach
Tanir Ozcelebi
Johan J. Lukkien

Keywords: smart environments; dependability; fault-prediction; battery fault-prediction model; linear regression.

Abstract:
Smart environments will consist of a large number of heterogeneous devices that communicate to collaboratively perform various tasks for users. We propose a novel dependability framework to increase availability and reliability of smart environment applications. We argue that the key step in achieving high dependability is to predict faults before they occur. Many statistical fault prediction techniques have been proposed for smart environment applications. Selecting the best one among these techniques involves performance assessment and detailed comparison on given metrics. We present a linear regression-based prediction model to predict the remaining battery lifetime of a device to prevent faults due to low battery. Further, we discuss the proposed dependability framework, the basic approaches and the corresponding mechanisms to achieve our long-term research goal. We envision that dependability framework will reduce maintenance costs of large-scale smart environments and increase the dependability of smart environment applications.

Pages: 117 to 120

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2014

Publication date: May 25, 2014

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4146

ISBN: 978-1-61208-341-4

Location: Venice, Italy

Dates: from May 25, 2014 to May 29, 2014