Cloud‐Centric WSNs
Sharief Oteafy, Hossam S. Hassanein · 2014
This chapter presents an investigative effort in assessing the validity of merging claims, the assumption base of many integration models and the hindrances presented by the natively contrasting paradigms of cloud-based services and wireless sensor networks (WSNs). It underlines the importance of investigating mainstream tracks of introducing dynamic operation in WSN design, and the importance of considering cloud services in that challenge. The chapter highlights the benefits of employing a paradigm with dynamic mediators (entities) that build upon cloud-based services to improve WSN dynamicity, in contrast to the hindrances of integration presented in this chapter. Further developments in service-oriented architectures (SOAs), not only encompassing WSNs, had grown to realize a grander scheme. More specifically, the notion of service-oriented device architecture (SODA) was presented to tackle the notion of an arbitrarily dense and resourceful infrastructure, including sensing nodes (SNs).