A Gibbs Sampler Approach for Optimal Distributed Monitoring of Multi-channel Wireless Networks

Wireless monitoring employing distributed sniffers has been shown to complement wire side monitoring using SNMP and base station logs since it reveals detailed PHY (e.g., signal strength, spectrum density) and MAC behaviors (e.g, collision, retransmissions), as well as timing information (e.g., back-off time), which are often essential for network diagnosis. Due to hardware limitations, wireless sniffers typically can only collect information …