A Taxonomy of Sensor Network Architectures
Daniel T. Fokum, Victor S. Frost, Pradeepkumar Mani, Gary J. Minden, Joseph Evans, Satyasree Muralidharan · 2008
Several architectures have been proposed for sensor networks. However, there is a lack of an over-arching sensor network architecture. Here we present some of the issues associated with existing sensor network architectures. Next we present several sensor network architectures, including one suitable for a multi-owner environment, classifying these architectures in terms of function and compositional elements. We also highlight each architecture’s key attributes in order to identify their common-alities. In making our arguments we refer to the concept of invariants, which are components of a system that cannot be changed without losing backward compat-ibility [1]. Our results show that while several sensor network architectures exist, each with different attributes, these architectures share several invariants. Key words: