A Comparative Study of Distributed Self-management Approaches for Wireless Sensor Networks

Author

Silva, Fabrício A. ; Braga, Thais Regina M ; Ruiz, Linnyer B. ; Nogueira, José Marcos S ; Loureiro, Antonio A F

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Fed. Univ. of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte

fYear

2006

fDate

3-7 April 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

The goal of a wireless sensor network (WSN) management solution is to promote network resources productivity and quality of services. This paper presents a comparative study of client/server (CS) and mobile agent (MA) approaches used in distributed self-management solutions for a hierarchical heterogeneous WSN, in which the managers are embedded into the cluster head nodes. These approaches were simulated and evaluated according to energy consumption. Considering energy consumption with transmission, the results reveal that the MA approach is more scalable than the CS one, tending to be more useful when the number of network elements and managed objects increases. On the other hand, the CS approach presents more interesting results regarding energy consumption with processing. Besides, the simulations performed also show that the MA size is an important parameter that impacts directly on the results

Keywords

client-server systems; computer network management; mobile agents; quality of service; wireless sensor networks; client-server; distributed self-management; mobile agent; network resources productivity; quality of services; wireless sensor networks; Computer network management; Energy consumption; Hardware; Infrared sensors; Network servers; Peer to peer computing; Productivity; Quality management; Resource management; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Network Operations and Management Symposium, 2006. NOMS 2006. 10th IEEE/IFIP

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC

ISSN

1542-1201

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0142-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NOMS.2006.1687652

Filename

1687652