Wireless sensor network virtualization: A survey

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 553-576

  Khan, Imran ^a   Belqasmi, Fatna ^b   Glitho, Roch ^c   Crespi, Noel ^a   Morrow, Monique ^d   Polakos, Paul ^d  

^a INSTITUT NATIONAL DES TÉLÉCOMMUNICATIONS   (France)

^b ZAYED UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^c Concordia University ^*  (Canada)

^d CISCO SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

Internet of Things (IoT); Networklevel virtualization; Node level virtualization; Virtualization; Wireless Sensor Network (WSN)

Indexed keywords

INTERNET; INTERNET OF THINGS; SENSOR NODES; SURVEYS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

DOMAIN SPECIFIC; INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT); MULTIPLE APPLICATIONS; RESEARCH ISSUES; STATE OF THE ART; VIRTUALIZATIONS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK (WSNS);

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 84962469353     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553877X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/COMST.2015.2412971     Document Type: Review

References (99)

1. M. A. Feki, F. Kawsar, M. Boussard, and L. Trappeniers, "The Internet of Things: The next technological revolution," Computer, vol. 46, no. 2, pp. 24-25, Feb. 2013.
2. I. F. Akyildiz, W. Su, Y. Sankarasubramaniam, and E. Cayirci, "Wireless sensor networks: A survey," Comput. Netw., vol. 38, no. 4, pp. 393-422, Mar. 2002.
3. S. Loveland, E. M. Dow, F. LeFevre, D. Beyer, and P. F. Chan, "Leveraging virtualization to optimize high-availability system configurations," IBM Syst. J., vol. 47, no. 4, pp. 591-604, 2008.
4. N. M. M. K. Chowdhury and R. Boutaba, "Network virtualization: State of the art and research challenges," IEEE Commun. Mag., vol. 47, no. 7, pp. 20-26, Jul. 2009.
5. Z. J. Chong, et al., "Autonomy for Mobility on Demand," in Intelligent Autonomous Systems, 12th ed., S. Lee, H. Cho, K.-J. Yoon, and J. Lee, Eds. Berlin Germany: Springer-Verlag, 2013, pp. 671-682.
6. G. Cardone, A. Cirri, A. Corradi, and L. Foschini, "The participact mobile crowd sensing living lab: The testbed for smart cities," IEEE Commun. Mag., vol. 52, no. 10, pp. 78-85, Oct. 2014.
7. H. Ma, D. Zhao, and P. Yuan, "Opportunities in mobile crowd sensing," IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 52, no. 8, pp. 29-35, Aug. 2014.
8. C. Perera, A. Zaslavsky, P. Christen, and D. Georgakopoulos, "Sensing as a service model for smart cities supported by Internet of Things," Trans. Emerging Tel. Technol., vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 81-93, Jan. 2014.
9. I. Khan, F. Belqasmi, R. Glitho, and N. Crespi, "A multi-layer architecture for wireless sensor network virtualization," in Proc. 6th Joint IFIP WMNC, Dubai, UAE, 2013, pp. 1-4.
10. L. Sarakis, T. Zahariadis, H.-C. Leligou, and M. Dohler, "A framework for service provisioning in virtual sensor networks," J. Wireless Commun. Netw., vol. 2012, no. 1, pp. 1-19, Dec. 2012.
11. A. Merentitis, et al., "WSN Trends: Sensor infrastructure virtualization as a driver towards the evolution of the Internet of Things," in Proc. 7th Int. Conf. UBICOMM, Porto, Portugal, 2013, pp. 113-118.
12. R. Ramdhany and G. Coulson, "Towards the coexistence of divergent applications on smart city sensing infrastructure" in Proc. 4th Int. Workshop CONET/UBICITEC, Philadelphia, PA, USA, Apr. 8, 2013, pp. 26-30
13. E. Patouni, A. Merentitis, P. Panagiotopoulos, A. Glentis, and N. Alonistioti, "Network virtualisation trends: Virtually anything is possible by connecting the unconnected," in Proc. IEEE SDN4FNS, 2013, pp. 1-7.
14. S. Abdelwahab, B. Hamdaoui, M. Guizani, and A. Rayes, "Enabling smart cloud services through remote sensing: An Internet of everything enabler," IEEE Internet Things J., vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 276-288, Jun. 2014.
15. C. Liang and F. R. Yu, "Wireless network virtualization: A survey, some research issues and challenges," IEEE Commun. Surveys Tuts., vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 358-380, 2015.
16. M. M. Islam, M. M. Hassan, G.-W. Lee, and E.-N. Huh, "A survey on virtualization of wireless sensor networks," Sensors, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 2175-2207, Feb. 2012.
17. M. M. Islam and E.-N. Huh, "Virtualization in wireless sensor network: Challenges and opportunities," J. Netw., vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 412-418, Mar. 2012.
18. Y. Yu, L. J. Rittle, V. Bhandari, and J. B. LeBrun, "Supporting concurrent applications in wireless sensor networks," in Proc. 4th Int. Conf. Embedded Netw. Sensor Syst., New York, NY, USA, 2006, pp. 139-152.
19. A. P. Jayasumana, Q. Han, and T. H. Illangasekare, "Virtual sensor networks-A resource efficient approach for concurrent applications," in Proc. 4th ITNG, 2007, pp. 111-115.
20. M. Ceriotti, et al., "Monitoring heritage buildings with wireless sensor networks: The Torre Aquila deployment," in Proc. Int. Conf. Inf. Process. Sensor Netw., Washington, DC, USA, 2009, pp. 277-288.
21. X. Wang, J. Wang, Z. Zheng, Y. Xu, and M. Yang, "Service composition in service-oriented wireless sensor networks with persistent queries," in Proc. 6th IEEE CCNC, 2009, pp. 1-5.
22. W. Dargie and C. Poellabauer, Fundamentals of Wireless Sensor Networks: Theory and Practice. Hoboken, NJ, USA: Wiley, 2010.
23. R. Chu, L. Gu, Y. Liu, M. Li, and X. Lu, "SenSmart: adaptive stack management for multitasking sensor networks," IEEE Trans. Comput., vol. 62, no. 1, pp. 137-150, Jan. 2013.
24. S. Nath, P. B. Gibbons, S. Seshan, and Z. Anderson, "Synopsis diffusion for robust aggregation in sensor networks," ACM Trans. Sen. Netw., vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 7:1-7:40, Apr. 2008.
25. E. Baccelli, O. Hahm, M. Gunes, M. Wahlisch, and T. C. Schmidt "RIOT OS: Towards an OS for the Internet of Things" in Proc. 32nd IEEE INFOCOM Poster, 2013, pp. 79-80.
26. H. Will, K. Schleiser, and J. Schiller, "A real-time kernel for wireless sensor networks employed in rescue scenarios," in Proc. IEEE 34th Conf. LCN, 2009, pp. 834-841.
27. E. Baccelli, O. Hahm, M. Gunes, M. Wahlisch, and T. C. Schmidt, "OS for the IoT-Goals, challenges, and solutions," in Proc. WISG, Troyes, France, 2013, pp. 1-6.
28. W. Dong, et al., "SenSpire OS: A predictable, flexible, and efficient operating system for wireless sensor networks," IEEE Trans. Comput., vol. 60, no. 12, pp. 1788-1801, Dec. 2011.
29. S. Bhatti, et al. "MANTIS OS: An embedded multithreaded operating system for wireless micro sensor platforms," Mobile Netw. Appl., vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 563-579, Aug. 2005.
30. P. Levis, et al., "TinyOS: An operating system for sensor networks," in Ambient Intelligence, W. Weber, J. M. Rabaey, and E. Aarts, Eds. Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag, 2005, pp. 115-148.
31. (Accessed 27/10/2014). [Online]. Available: www.cs.colorado.edu/∼rhan/sensornets.html
32. Q. Cao, T. Abdelzaher, J. Stankovic, and T. He, "The LiteOS operating system: Towards unix-like abstractions for wireless sensor networks," in Proc. Int. Conf. IPSN, 2008, pp. 233-244.
33. S. Saruwatari, M. Suzuki, and H. Morikawa, "PAVENET OS: A compact hard real-time operating system for precise sampling in wireless sensor networks," SICE J. Control, Meas., Syst. Integr., vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 24-33, 2012.
34. A. Dunkels, B. Gronvall, and T. Voigt, "Contiki-A lightweight and flexible operating system for tiny networked sensors," in Proc. 29th Annu. IEEE Int. Conf. Local Comput. Netw., 2004, pp. 455-462.
35. A. Dunkels, O. Schmidt, T. Voigt, and M. Ali, "Protothreads: Simplifying event-driven programming of memory-constrained embedded systems," in Proc. 4th Int. Conf. Embedded Netw. Sensor Syst., New York, NY, USA, 2006, pp. 29-42.
36. D. Yazar and A. Dunkels, "Efficient application integration in IP-based sensor networks," in Proc. 1st ACM Workshop Embedded Sens. Syst. Energy-Efficiency Buildings, New York, NY, USA, 2009, pp. 43-48.
37. M. Durvy, et al., "Making sensor networks IPv6 ready," in Proc. 6th ACM Conf. Embedded Netw. Sensor Syst., New York, NY, USA, 2008, pp. 421-422.
38. M. Kovatsch, S. Duquennoy, and A. Dunkels, "A low-power CoAP for contiki," in Proc. IEEE 8th Int. Conf. MASS, 2011, pp. 855-860.
39. N. Tsiftes, A. Dunkels, Z. He, and T. Voigt, "Enabling large-scale storage in sensor networks with the coffee file system," in Proc. Int. Conf. Inf. Process. Sensor Netw., Washington, DC, USA, 2009, pp. 349-360.
40. K. Klues, et al., "TOSThreads: Thread-safe and non-invasive preemption in tinyos," in Proc. 7th ACM Conf. Embedded Netw. Sensor Syst., New York, NY, USA, 2009, pp. 127-140.
41. J. Hui, "Deluge 2. 0-TinyOS network programming," 2005. [Online]. Available: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/jwhui/research/deluge/delugemanual.pdf
42. P. Levis and D. Culler, "Mate: A tiny virtual machine for sensor networks," in Proc. 10th Int. Conf. Rec. IEEE IAS Annu. Meeting ASPLOSX, San Jose, CA, USA, 2002, pp. 85-95.
43. J. Koshy and R. Pandey, "VMSTAR: Synthesizing scalable runtime environments for sensor networks," in Proc. 3rd Int. Conf. Embedded Netw. Sensor Syst., New York, NY, USA, 2005, pp. 243-254.
44. R. Pandey and J. Wu, "BOTS: A constraint-based component system for synthesizing scalable software systems," in Proc. ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED Conf. Language, Compilers, Tool Support Embedded Syst., New York, NY, USA, 2006, pp. 189-198.
45. J. Koshy and R. Pandey, "Remote incremental linking for energy-efficient reprogramming of sensor networks," in Proc. 2nd Eur. Workshop Wireless Sensor Netw., 2005, pp. 354-365.
46. D. Simon, et al. "Java on the bare metal of wireless sensor devices: The squawk java virtual machine," in Proc. 2nd Int. Conf. Virtual Execution Environ., New York, NY, USA, 2006, pp. 78-88.
47. J. W. Muchow, Core J2ME Technology and MIDP. Englewood Cliffs, NJ, USA: Prentice-Hall, 2001.
48. C.-L. Fok, G.-C. Roman, and C. Lu, "Agilla: A mobile agent middleware for self-adaptive wireless sensor networks," ACM Trans. Autonom. Adapt. Syst., vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 16:1-16:26, Jul. 2009.
49. S. Bhattacharya, A. Saifullah, C. Lu, and G. Roman, "Multi-application deployment in shared sensor networks based on quality of monitoring," in Proc. 16th IEEE RTAS, 2010, pp. 259-268.
50. V. Gupta, et al., "Nano-CF: A coordination framework for macroprogramming in wireless sensor networks," in Proc. 8th Annu. IEEE Commun. SECON, 2011, pp. 467-475.
51. A. Eswaran, A. Rowe, and R. Rajkumar, "Nano-RK: An energy-aware resource-centric RTOS for sensor networks," in Proc. 26th IEEE Int. RTSS, 2005, pp. 10-265.
52. A. Rowe, K. Lakshmanan, H. Zhu, and R. Rajkumar, "Rate-harmonized scheduling and its applicability to energy management," IEEE Trans. Ind. Informat., vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 265-275, Aug. 2010.
53. A. Rowe, et al., "Sensor Andrew: Large-scale campus-wide sensing and actuation," IBM J. Res. Develop., vol. 55, no. 1. 2, pp. 6:1-6:14, Jan. 2011.
54. A. Muneeb and K. Langendoen. "A case for peer-to-peer network overlays in sensor networks" in Proc. Int. WWSNA, 2007, pp. 56-61.
55. G. Fersi, W. Louati, and M. B. Jemaa, "Distributed hash table-based routing and data management in wireless sensor networks: A survey," Wireless Netw, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 219-236, Feb. 2013.
56. H. V. Luu and X. Tang. "Constructing rings overlay for robust data collection in wireless sensor networks" J. Netw. Comput. Appl., vol. 36, no. 5, pp. 1372-1386, Sep. 2013.
57. A. A.-B Al-Mamou and H. Labiod, "ScatterPastry: An overlay routing using a DHT over wireless sensor networks," in Proc. Int. Conf. IPC, 2007, pp. 274-279.
58. J. Hoebeke, E. D. Poorter, S. Bouckaert, I. Moerman, and P. Demeester, "Managed ecosystems of networked objects," Wireless Pers. Commun., vol. 58, no. 1, pp. 125-143, May 2011.
59. I. Ishaq, J. Hoebeke, I. Moerman, and P. Demeester, "Internet of things virtual networks: Bringing network virtualization to resourceconstrained devices," in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. GreenCom, 2012, pp. 293-300.
60. E. De Poorter, E. Troubleyn, I. Moerman, and P. Demeester, "IDRA: A flexible system architecture for next generation wireless sensor networks," Wireless Netw., vol. 17, no. 6, pp. 1423-1440, Aug. 2011.
61. E. Kohler, R. Morris, B. Chen, J. Jannotti, and M. F. Kaashoek, "The click modular router," ACM Trans. Comput. Syst., vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 263-297, Aug. 2000.
62. R. Tynan, G. M. P. O'Hare, M. J. O'Grady, and C. Muldoon, "Virtual sensor networks: An embedded agent approach," in Proc. ISPA, 2008, pp. 926-932.
63. C. Muldoon, G. M. P. O'Hare, and J. F. Bradley, "Towards reflective mobile agents for resource-constrained mobile devices," in Proc. 6th Int. Joint Conf. Autonom. Agents Multiagent Syst., New York, NY, USA, 2007, pp. 141:1-141:3.
64. H. M. N. D. Bandara, A. P. Jayasumana, and T. H. Illangasekare, "Cluster tree based self organization of virtual sensor networks," in Proc. IEEE GLOBECOM Workshops, 2008, pp. 1-6.
65. Q. Han, A. P. Jayasumana, T. Illangaskare, and T. Sakaki, "A wireless sensor network based closed-loop system for subsurface contaminant plume monitoring," in Proc. IEEE IPDPS, 2008, pp. 1-5.
66. M. Haghighi and D. Cliff, "Multi-agent support for multiple concurrent applications and dynamic data-gathering in wireless sensor networks," in Proc. 7th Int. Conf. IMIS, 2013, pp. 320-325.
67. R. B. Smith, "SPOTWorld and the sun SPOT," in Proc. 6th Int. Conf. Inf. Process. Sensor Netw., New York, NY, USA, 2007, pp. 565-566.
68. A. Majeed and T. A. Zia, "Multi-set architecture for multi-applications running on wireless sensor networks," in Proc. IEEE 24th Int. Conf. WAINA, 2010, pp. 299-304.
69. J. Steffan, L. Fiege, M. Cilia, and A. Buchmann, "Towards multi-purpose wireless sensor networks," in Proc. Syst. Commun., 2005, pp. 336-341.
70. I. Leontiadis, C. Efstratiou, C. Mascolo, and J. Crowcroft, "SenShare: Transforming sensor networks into multi-application sensing infrastructures," in Wireless Sensor Networks, G. P. Picco and W. Heinzelman, Eds. Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag, 2012, pp. 65-81.
71. J. W. Hui and D. Culler, "The dynamic behavior of a data dissemination protocol for network programming at scale," in Proc. 2nd Int. Conf. Embedded Netw. Sensor Syst., New York, NY, USA, 2004, pp. 81-94.
72. J. Lu, et al., "The smart thermostat: Using occupancy sensors to save energy in homes," in Proc. 8th ACM Conf. Embedded Netw. Sensor Syst., New York, NY, USA, 2010, pp. 211-224.
73. O. Gnawali, R. Fonseca, K. Jamieson, D. Moss, and P. Levis, "Collection tree protocol," in Proc. 7th ACM Conf. Embedded Netw. Sensor Syst., New York, NY, USA, 2009, pp. 1-14.
74. M. Navarro, M. Antonucci, L. Sarakis, and T. Zahariadis, "VITRO architecture: Bringing virtualization to WSN world," in Proc. IEEE 8th Int. Conf. MASS, 2011, pp. 831-836.
75. T. Zahariadis, P. Trakadas, H. C. Leligou, S. Maniatis, and P. Karkazis, "A novel trust-aware geographical routing scheme for wireless sensor networks," Wireless Pers. Commun., vol. 69, no. 2, pp. 805-826, Mar. 2013.
76. P. Levis, "Experiences from a decade of tinyos development," in Proc. 10th USENIX Conf. Oper. Syst. Des. Implementation, Berkeley, CA, USA, 2012, pp. 207-220.
77. R. N. Murty, et al., "CitySense: An urban-scale wireless sensor network and testbed," in Proc. Conf. Technol. Homeland Security, 2008, pp. 583-588.
78. C. Efstratiou, I. Leontiadis, C. Mascolo, and J. Crowcroft, "A Shared Sensor Network Infrastructure," in Proc. 8th ACM Conf. Embedded Netw. Sensor Syst., New York, NY, USA, 2010, pp. 367-368.
79. L. Sanchez, et al., "SmartSantander: IoT experimentation over a smart city testbed," Comput. Net., vol. 61, pp. 217-238, Mar. 2014.
80. F. Berkers, et al., "Constructing a multi-sided business model for a smart horizontal IoT service platform," in Proc. 17th Int. Conf. ICIN 2013, pp. 126-132.
81. A. Andrushevich, et al., "Leveraging multi-domain links via the Internet of Things," in Internet of Things, Smart Spaces, and Next Generation Networking, S. Balandin, S. Andreev, and Y. Koucheryavy, Eds. Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag, 2013, pp. 13-24.
82. D. Irwin, et al., "Towards a virtualized sensing environment," in Testbeds and Research Infrastructures. Development of Networks and Communities. Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag, 2011, pp. 133-142.
83. R. S. Oliver, I. Shcherbakov, and G. Fohler, "An operating system abstraction layer for portable applications in wireless sensor networks," in Proc. ACM Symp. Appl. Comput., 2010, pp. 742-748.
84. J. Maenpaa, J. J. Bolonio, and S. Loreto, "Using RELOAD and CoAP for wide area sensor and actuator networking," J. Wireless Commun. Netw., vol. 2012, no. 1, pp. 1-22, Dec. 2012.
85. Z. Shelby, "Embedded web services," IEEE Wireless Commun., vol. 17, no. 6, pp. 52-57, Dec. 2010.
86. Z. Shelby, et al., "Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)," work in progress, Internet Eng. Task Force-IETF, Fremont, CA, USA, Draft-ietfcore-coap-18, Jun. 2013.
87. S. Cheshire and M. Krochmal, "Multicast DNS," IETF, Fremont, CA, USA, RFC 6762, Feb. 2013.
88. R. Glitho, M. Morrow, and P. Polakos, "A cloud based-Architecture for cost-efficient applications and services provisioning in wireless sensor networks," in Proc. 6th Joint IFIP WMNC, 2013, pp. 1-4.
89. H. Rowaihy, et al., "Sensor-mission assignment in wireless sensor networks," ACM Trans. Sensor Netw., vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 36:1-36:33, Jul. 2010.
90. M. Haghighi, "Market-based resource allocation for energy-efficient execution of multiple concurrent applications in wireless sensor networks," in Mobile, Ubiquitous, and Intelligent Computing, J. H. Park, H. Adeli, N. Park, and I. Woungang, Eds. Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag, 2014, pp. 173-178.
91. W. Li, F. C. Delicato, P. F. Pires, and A. Y. Zomaya, "Energyefficient task allocation with quality of service provisioning for concurrent applications in multi-functional wireless sensor network systems," Concurrency Comput., Pract. Exp. ., vol. 26, no. 11, pp. 1869-1888, Aug. 2014.
92. J. Ko, B.-B. Lee, S. G. Hong, and N. Kim, "Poster abstract: Virtualizing external wireless sensors for designing personalized smartphone services," in Proc. 12th Int. Conf. Inf. Process. Sensor Netw., New York, NY, USA, 2013, pp. 353-354.
93. V. Gupta, N. Pereira, E. Tovar, and R. Rajkumar, "Poster abstract: A harmony of sensors: Achieving determinism in multi-application sensor networks," in Proc. 13th Int. Symp. Inf. Process. Sensor Netw., Piscataway, NJ, USA, 2014, pp. 299-300.
94. C.-M. Hsieh, Z. Wang, and J. Henkel, "DANCE: Distributed applicationaware node configuration engine in shared reconfigurable sensor networks," in Proc. Conf. Des., Autom. Test Eur., San Jose, CA, USA, 2013, pp. 839-842.
95. T. M. Cao, B. Bellata, and M. Oliver, "Design of a generic management system for wireless sensor networks," Ad Hoc Netw., vol. 20, pp. 16-35, Sep. 2014.
96. M. Haghighi, "An agent-based multi-model tool for simulating multiple concurrent applications in WSNs" in Proc. 5th Int. Conf. Commun. Softw. Netw. JACN, Malaysia, Jun. 2013, pp. 1-6.
97. C. Reed, et al., "Ogc sensor web enablement:overview and high level achhitecture" in Proc. IEEE Autotestcon, 2007, pp. 372-380.
98. E. Gelenbe, D. Gesbert, D. Gunduz, H. Kulah, and E. Uysal-Biyikoglu, "Energy harvesting communication networks: Optimization and demonstration (the E-CROPS project)," in Proc. 24th TIWDC, 2013, pp. 1-6.
99. S. Sudevalayam and P. Kulkarni, "Energy harvesting sensor nodes: Survey and implications," IEEE Commun. Surveys Tuts., vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 443-461, Sep. 2011.