Research Area:  Software Defined Networks

Abstract:

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) are key enablers for several applications such as smart agriculture and smart cities. Software Defined Wireless Sensor Networking (SDWSN) paradigm improves WSN resource sharing, flexibility, and management. Monitoring network performance is essential to network management and it also plays an important role in making better use of scarce resources. However, obtaining network performance metrics in WSN is not trivial due to energy and computational constraints on the WSN nodes. The main contribution of this paper is a performance monitoring module for IT-SDN, an SDWSN framework. This module collects information about the data packets transmitted, queue delay and available energy on the WSN nodes, and sends the information as requested by the controller. The results showed that the monitoring module neither impacts the delivery rate, delay and overhead of the network, nor the energy consumption of the node. Also, the data collected by the monitoring module is pretty similar to the real values.

Keywords:  
network monitoring
software defined wireless sensor networks
management

Author(s) Name:  Thamires C. Luz; Gustavo A. Nunez; Cíntia B. Margi; Fábio L. Verdi

Publisher name:  IEEE

DOI:  10.1109/ICNSC.2019.8743237

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Paper Link:   https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8743237