Towards a Collaborative Sessions' Management Tool for WSNs

摘要

In Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), the sensor nodes are typically resource limited. This fact forces nodes to collaborate in order to implement their tasks. In this paper, we propose and implement a model that represents the various types of collaboration relationships that can be established in a WSN. This involves identifying and analyzing the different types of collaboration that may occur in any WSN. As a result, we propose a hierarchy composed by different types and levels of collaboration, and we propose a collaborative session management tool, called WISE-MANager. This tool allows bringing these concepts into practice, more precisely to the establishment of collaborative sessions. WISE-MANager optimizes the WSN operation and increases the user control on the network monitoring.