Wastage-Aware Routing in Energy-Harvesting Software Defined Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

Techno-economic drivers are creating the conditions for a radical change of paradigm in the design and operation of future telecommunications infrastructures. In fact, SDN, NFV, Cloud and Edge-Fog Computing are converging together into a single systemic transformation termed “Softwarization” that will find concrete exploitations in network management. Although wireless equipment manufacturers are increasing their involvement in SDN-related activities, to date there is not a clear and comprehensive understanding of what are the opportunities offered by SDN in most common networking scenarios involving wireless infrastructureless communications and how SDN concepts should be adapted to suit the characteristics of wireless and mobile communications. Here we studied different proposed protocol architecture for software defined wireless network, effective ways for energy efficient WSN and found some of the shortcomings of them. We discuss about some of the challenges facing IOT paradigm and major design requirements as well; with the intention to merge SDN and energy reservation approaches for better performance in terms of network lifetime and latency.