Analysis of Network Management Protocols in Wireless Sensor Network

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have promised us a new monitor and control model over the distributed computing environment. In general, these networks consist of a large number of sensor nodes densely distributed over the region of interest for collecting information or monitor & track certain specific phenomena from the physical environment. Network management in WSNs becomes extremely important and vital in order to keep the whole network and application work properly. Until now there still doesn´t emerge a considerable, common agreed network management solution for WSN. This paper summarizes the uniqueness of network management protocol for WSN, provide an overview analysis of several current existed protocols, so as to find out and summarize their advantage and disadvantage, and provide some directions for the future research of network management protocol in WSN.