Wireless sensor network virtualization: A survey

By Imran Khan, F. Belqasmi, Roch H. Glitho, Noël Crespi, Monique J. Morrow, Paul A. Polakos. IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, 2015

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Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are the key components of the emerging Internet-of-Things (IoT) paradigm. They are now ubiquitous and used in a plurality of application domains. WSNs are still domain specific and usually deployed to support a specific application. However, as WSNs' nodes are becoming more and more powerful, it is getting more and more pertinent to research how multiple applications could share a very same WSN infrastructure. Virtualization is a technology that can potentially enable this sharing. This paper is a survey on WSN virtualization. It provides a comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art and an in-depth discussion of the research issues. We introduce the basics of WSN virtualization and motivate its pertinence with carefully selected scenarios. Existing works are presented in detail and critically evaluated using a set of requirements derived from the scenarios. The pertinent research projects are also reviewed. Several research issues are also discussed with hints on how they could be tackled.

Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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A Survey on Mobile Crowdsensing Systems: Challenges, Solutions, and Opportunities (2019, background): “As WSN nodes have become more powerful with time, multiple applications can run over the same WSN infrastructure trough virtualization [101].”
A Survey on Software-Defined Wireless Sensor Networks: Challenges and Design Requirements (2017, background): “WSN surveys dates a while back and have been improved with time and can be found in [1] and [8]–[10]; more recently Khan et al. [11] reviewed the prospect of WSN virtualization.”
Software Defined Optical Networks (SDONs): A Comprehensive Survey (2015, background): “Bitar [39] has surveyed use cases for SDN controlled broad-band access, such as on-demand bandwidth boost, dynamic service re-provisioning, as well as value-added services and service protection.”
Digital Twin in the IoT Context: A Survey on Technical Features, Scenarios, and Architectural Models (2020, background): “Virtualization has also been extensively applied to the IoT: a sensor can be virtualized in a cloud system and behave as the real one by running software functionalities that represent a specific “smart object” [107].”
Review of Internet of Things (IoT) in Electric Power and Energy Systems (2018, background): “• Virtualizing the IoT sensor infrastructure and making it available for use by multiple applications [80].”
A Survey of Multi-Objective Optimization in Wireless Sensor Networks: Metrics, Algorithms, and Open Problems (2016, background): “A range of surveys have been dedicated to diverse singleobjective research domains in WSNs, such as their energy efficiency [25], routing [26], congestion control [27], their MAC protocols [28], data collection [6], privacy and security [29], localization [30], [31], cross-layer QoS guarantees [32],”