Skip to main page content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Dot gov

The .gov means it’s official.
Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure you’re on a federal government site.

Https

The site is secure.
The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely.

Access keys NCBI Homepage MyNCBI Homepage Main Content Main Navigation
Review
. 2012;12(2):2175-207.
doi: 10.3390/s120202175. Epub 2012 Feb 15.

A survey on virtualization of Wireless Sensor Networks

Md Motaharul Islam  1 , Mohammad Mehedi Hassan, Ga-Won Lee, Eui-Nam Huh
Affiliations
Review

A survey on virtualization of Wireless Sensor Networks

Md Motaharul Islam et al. Sensors (Basel). 2012.

Abstract

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are gaining tremendous importance thanks to their broad range of commercial applications such as in smart home automation, health-care and industrial automation. In these applications multi-vendor and heterogeneous sensor nodes are deployed. Due to strict administrative control over the specific WSN domains, communication barriers, conflicting goals and the economic interests of different WSN sensor node vendors, it is difficult to introduce a large scale federated WSN. By allowing heterogeneous sensor nodes in WSNs to coexist on a shared physical sensor substrate, virtualization in sensor network may provide flexibility, cost effective solutions, promote diversity, ensure security and increase manageability. This paper surveys the novel approach of using the large scale federated WSN resources in a sensor virtualization environment. Our focus in this paper is to introduce a few design goals, the challenges and opportunities of research in the field of sensor network virtualization as well as to illustrate a current status of research in this field. This paper also presents a wide array of state-of-the art projects related to sensor network virtualization.

Keywords: 6LoWPAN; ALU; IP-WSN; SInP; SVNSP; VSN; sensor substrate.

PubMed Disclaimer

Figures

Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Business model of sensor network virtualization.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
The PRESTO data management architecture.
Figure 3.
Figure 3.
Software architecture of SensEye.
Figure 4.
Figure 4.
Application of VSNs in battlefield monitoring.
Figure 5.
Figure 5.
Applications of VSN in rock slide and animal monitoring.
Figure 6.
Figure 6.
Gator Tech smart house (Courtesy: Gator Tech).
See this image and copyright information in PMC

References

    1. Akyildiz I.F., Su W., Sankarasubramaniam Y., Cayirci E. A survey on sensor networks. IEEE Commun. Mag. 2002;40:102–114.
    1. Akka K., Younis M. A survey on routing protocols for wireless sensor networks. Ad. Hoc. Netw. 2005;3:325–349.
    1. Olariu S., Xu Q. A simple and robust virtual infrastructure for massively deployed wireless sensor networks. J. Comput. Commun. 2005;28 doi: 10.1016/j.comcom.2004.12.038. - DOI
    1. Shelby Z., Bormann C. 6LoWPAN: The Wireless Embedded Internet. John Wiley & Sons Ltd; Hoboken, NJ, USA: 2009.
    1. Rodrigues J.J.P.C., Neves P.A.C.S. A survey on IP-based wireless sensor network solutions. Int. J. Commun. Syst. 2010;23:963–998.

Publication types

MeSH terms

LinkOut - more resources