Wireless sensor network virtualization: A survey

Document Type

Article

Source of Publication

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

Publication Date

1-1-2016

Abstract

© 1998-2012 IEEE. Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are the key components of the emerging Internet-of-Things (IoT) paradigm. They are now ubiquitous and used in a plurality of application domains. WSNs are still domain specific and usually deployed to support a specific application. However, as WSNs' nodes are becoming more and more powerful, it is getting more and more pertinent to research how multiple applications could share a very same WSN infrastructure. Virtualization is a technology that can potentially enable this sharing. This paper is a survey on WSN virtualization. It provides a comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art and an in-depth discussion of the research issues. We introduce the basics of WSN virtualization and motivate its pertinence with carefully selected scenarios. Existing works are presented in detail and critically evaluated using a set of requirements derived from the scenarios. The pertinent research projects are also reviewed. Several research issues are also discussed with hints on how they could be tackled.

ISSN

1553-877X

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.

Volume

18

Issue

1

First Page

553

Last Page

576

Disciplines

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Keywords

Internet-of-Things (IoT), Networklevel virtualization, Node-level virtualization, Virtualization, Wireless Sensor Network (WSN)

Scopus ID

84962469353

Indexed in Scopus

yes

Open Access

yes

Open Access Type

Green: A manuscript of this publication is openly available in a repository

Link to Full Text

Share

COinS