On the Design of a Self-Managed Wireless Sensor Network

Ruiz, Braga, Silva, Assuncao, Nogueira, Loureiro

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@article{ruiz:ieee-comm-2005,
  title={On the Design of a Self-Managed Wireless Sensor Network},
  author={Ruiz, LB and Braga, TRM and Silva, FA and Assuncao, HP
          and Nogueira, JMS and Loureiro, AAF},
  journal={{IEEE} Communications Magazine},
  volume={43},
  number={8},
  pages={95--102},
  year={2005}
}

Enable self-organization, self-configuration, self-service, self-maintenance

• Policy inputs from users to guide self-management

Either remoteness of deployment or size of wireless sensor networks may make manual oversight and management challenging

Multiple fire danger metrics for Brazil climate, structure:

• Angstrom: Percent relative humidity, air temperature; most accurate
• Nesterov: Temperature, air saturation deficit (based on maximum water vapor pressure, real water vapor pressure)
• Monte Alegre: Based solely on humidity

Need to reliably deliver important notifications, i.e., event incident reports, to human users to respond

• This needs to override energy saving policy, etc

Density control function

• Voluntarily turn nodes off temporarily to manage congestion, collission, energy waste (redundant sensors)
• Turn nodes back on when sparse areas are detected

Two components to policy language: Authorization, obligation

Changing behavior over time, adapting to context, e.g., when a fire is in progress