On Wireless Sensor Networks: Architectures, Protocols, Applications, and Management
Yazeed Al-Obaisat, Robin Braun · UTS ePRESS (University of Technology Sydney) · 2007
With the recent technological advances in wireless commu-nications, integrated digital circuits, and micro electro me-chanical systems (MEMS); development of wireless sensor networks has been enabled and become dramatically feasible. Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are large networks made of a numerous number of sensor nodes with sensing, com-putation, and wireless communications capabilities. Many various routing, power management, and data dissemina-tion protocols have been designed for wireless sensor net-works (WSNs) dependent on both the network architecture and the applications that it is designed for. In this paper, we present the state of the art of wireless sensor networks’ architecture and design features. Also, in this paper, we in-troduce recent work on routing protocols for WSNs and their design goals and challenges. Also, an overview of the appli-cation that WSNs assist in is presented. Finally, several open research questions of wireless sensor networks man-agement and issues are suggested and put forward. 1