Towards Integration of Wireless Sensor Networks and Cloud Computing

Recently, induced by incorporating the ubiquitous data gathering capability of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) as well as the powerful data storage and data processing abilities of cloud computing (CC), WSN-CC integration is attracting growing interest from both academia and industry. However, WSN-CC integration is still in its infancy and a lot of research efforts are expected to emerge in this area. Towards WSN-CC integration, this paper first presents four ignored research issues about WSN-CC integration. Further, our accomplished work and ongoing work regarding solving the identified research issues are briefly described. The analytical and experimental results conducted in our work show that the approaches proposed can effectively relieve the corresponding research problem. We hope our work can attract more researches into WSN-CC integration to make it develop faster and better.