A Survey of Wireless Sensor Network Abstraction for Application Development

Teemu Laukkarinen, Jukka Suhonen and Marko Hännikäinen

International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, 2012, vol. 8, issue 12, 740268

Abstract: Wireless sensor network (WSN) application development is not an easy task due to its resource constrained nature and vast feature rich application space. Several abstractions are harnessed to ease out the difficult WSN application development. In this paper, three levels of abstractions are classified from the existing literature: node, network, and infrastructure abstractions. Since the node and network abstractions are already a well-studied area, the infrastructure abstraction is surveyed in detail to complete knowledge. Technology interoperability, service discovery, metadata support, and processing support are found as basic requirements for infrastructure abstraction. Problematic security and quality of service topics are discussed and the open research questions of ontology, service discovery, distributed processing, and performance metrics are defined. Finally, a distributed middleware design is presented as a possible solution for the key open research question: how to utilize capabilities of the abstracted technologies.

Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1155/2012/740268

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