Quality of Service for Wireless Sensor Network

S. Vivek Saravanan; A. Solairaju

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are gradually adopted in the industrial world due to their advantages over wired networks. In addition to saving cabling costs, WSNs widen the realm of environments feasible for monitoring. They thus add sensing and acting capabilities to objects in the physical world and allow for communication among these objects or with services in the future Internet. However, the acceptance of WSNs by the industrial automation community is impeded by open issues, such as security guarantees and provision of Quality of Service (QoS). To examine both of these perspectives, we select and survey relevant WSN technologies dedicated to industrial automation. We determine QoS requirements and carry out a threat analysis, which act as basis of our evaluate ion of the cur-rent state-of-the-art. According to the results of this evaluation, we identify and discuss open research issues.

Select Volume / Issues:

• Volume 4 Issue 6, Nov. 2013

Year:

2013

Type of Publication:

Article

Keywords:

Wireless Sensor Networks; Industrial Automation; Quality of Service; State-of-the-art; WirelessHART; ISA100 11a-2009

Journal:

IJECCE

Volume:

4

Number:

6

Pages:

1620-1626

Month:

November