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Wireless Sensor Network: the Challenges of Design and Programmability

E N Ganesh

Abstract


Wireless sensor network is a group of the smart sensors, each capable of sensing, processing and communicating, but when deployed in the numbers, form a network which collectively monitor the state of physical world. Its applications and potential benefits are tremendous and seem only limited by the imagination. As any technology at its infancy stage, there are plenty of the challenges and obstacles lying ahead. The interdisciplinary nature makes design challenges wide and deep, from the network protocols, power provisioning, to the programming models, just to name a few. This survey paper gives a brief overview on what the wireless sensor network is, what current design challenges are, and presents a variety of the programming models that has been proposed.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37628/ijtet.v3i1.424

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