Runtime verification and reflection for wireless sensor networks

Abstract

The paper proposes to re-visit a light-weight verification technique called runtime verification in the context of wireless sensor networks. The authors believe that especially an extension of runtime verification which is called runtime reflection and which is not only able to detect faults, but diagnose and even repair them, can be an important step towards robust, self-organizing and self-healing WSNs. They present the basic idea of runtime reflection and possible applications.