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Mapping Application Requirements to Virtualization-Enabled Software Defined WSN

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Abstract

With the emergence of resource powerful sensor nodes, the concept of WSN virtualization is gaining increasing attention from the research community and the industry. One approach to achieve WSN virtualization is to exploit the capabilities of individual sensor nodes to execute tasks of multiple applications concurrently. In this paper, we consider the problem of task allocation in software-defined WSNs (SD-WSNs), which are distinguished by centralized control plane and programmable data plane. We extend our previous work on this topic, where we proposed the control algorithm which determines suitability of a sensor node for task allocation based on the active routing paths and residual energy in the network. Availability of such information can be easily justified in SD-WSNs. Through extensive simulations, the performance of this strategy has been evaluated and compared with two conventional task allocation approaches, which assume traditional minimum-hop routing. In addition, we analysed performance of more simple software defined networking-based approach, which performs resource allocation by considering only residual energy in the network. The obtained results demonstrate benefits of SD-WSN architecture when it comes to virtualization efficiency, and clarify improvements achieved by mutual correlation of routing and task allocation decisions.

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This work has been supported by the BIO-ICT Centre of Excellence (Contract No. 01-1001) funded by Ministry of Science of Montenegro and the HERIC project.

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Tomovic, S., Radusinovic, I. Mapping Application Requirements to Virtualization-Enabled Software Defined WSN. Wireless Pers Commun 97, 1693–1709 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-017-4650-0

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Keywords

  • SDN
  • WSN
  • Task allocation
  • Virtualization