Radioport: A Radio Network for Monitoring and Diagnosing Computer Systems

A radio network is described for configuring, monitoring, and diagnosing the components of a computer system. Such a network offers several advantages: (a) it improves the robustness of the overall system by not having the monitoring functions rely on the interconnect of the monitored system; (b) by broadcasting information it offers direct communication between the monitoring and monitored components thereby removing dependencies inherent to hierarchical and daisy-chained wired networks; (c) it does not rely on a physical interconnect thereby offering non-intrusive monitoring, improved reliability thanks to the lack of errorand failure-prone cables and connectors, and potentially lower implemen-