Title: A self-organised middleware architecture for Wireless Sensor Network management

Authors: Mengjie Yu, Hala Mokhtar, Madjid Merabti

Addresses: School of Computing and Mathematical Science, Liverpool John Moores University, Byrom Street, Liverpool L3 3AF, UK. ' School of Computing and Mathematical Science, Liverpool John Moores University, Byrom Street, Liverpool L3 3AF, UK. ' School of Computing and Mathematical Science, Liverpool John Moores University, Byrom Street, Liverpool L3 3AF, UK

Abstract: In this paper, we propose a lightweight middleware system that supports Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) to handle real-time network management using a hierarchical framework. The primary objective of this middleware is to provide standard management services for sensor applications to maintain network service quality with minimal human intervention. Middleware of sensor node also reconfigures its functionality autonomously to reflect changes of node resources expenditure or network environment. In addition, we propose an alternate power management solution to achieve energy efficiency of sensor networks via controlling management performance of sensor nodes. This approach reduces node energy consumption without frequent reconfiguration of network management structure.

Keywords: network management; self-organised middleware; self-managed sensor networks; wireless networks; WSNs; power management; energy efficiency; sensor nodes; node energy consumption.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAHUC.2008.018400

International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, 2008 Vol.3 No.3, pp.135 - 145

Published online: 20 May 2008 *

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