An autonomic-oriented architecture for wireless sensor networks

Abstract

Autonomic communication is a new paradigm to enable network self-configuration, self-organization, self-healing, and autonomic behaviour. Emerging networks need this autonomic behaviour in order to ensure mainly quality of service, resilience and reliability of the network which is highly necessary for a long term service operation. Typical environments where such a deployment is extremely important come from wireless sensor networks. Indeed, sensor networks are strongly distributed and need for a self-organized and self-manageable architecture to provide a reliable service support. To come up with these properties, this paper introduces a new autonomic-oriented architecture (AoA) for wireless sensor networks.