Survey of Network Management Protocols in Wireless Sensor Network

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have promised us a new monitoring and controlling model over the distributed computing environment. Network management in WSNs becomes extremely important and vital in order to keep the whole network and application work properly. This paper summarizes the uniqueness of network management protocol for WSN, provide an overview analysis of several current existed protocols, so as to find out and summarize their advantage and disadvantage, and provide some directions for the future research of network management protocol in WSN.