A survey on quality of service support in wireless sensor and actor networks: Requirements and challenges in the context of critical infrastructure protection

Wireless sensor and actor networks (WSANs) are likely to become a pervasive technology in the near future due to the special characteristics of these devices and to the great number of applications where it can be applied. One of these applications is the critical infrastructure protection (CIP). In fact, WSANs have actually been identified as having the potential to become an integral part of the CIP. However, in order to achieve that goal, WSANs need to provide a set of features which includes a robust QoS. Unfortunately QoS support mechanisms in WSANs are still largely undeveloped. This paper studies the state-of-the-art of QoS management in WSANs by exploring existing proposals, challenges and open issues in the field. Emphasis is put on QoS in the context of CIP by focusing on the QoS requirements and the needs of CIP applications. Existing middleware and protocols are surveyed and the challenges and open issues in the field are presented.

[1]  JAMAL N. AL-KARAKI,et al.  Routing techniques in wireless sensor networks: a survey , 2004, IEEE Wireless Communications.

[2]  Wendi Heinzelman,et al.  Energy-efficient communication protocol for wireless microsensor networks , 2000, Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.

[3]  Gregory J. Pottie,et al.  Protocols for self-organization of a wireless sensor network , 2000, IEEE Wirel. Commun..

[4]  Chenyang Lu,et al.  Rapid Development and Flexible Deployment of Adaptive Wireless Sensor Network Applications , 2005, 25th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'05).

[5]  Katia Obraczka,et al.  Energy-efficient collision-free medium access control for wireless sensor networks , 2003, SenSys '03.

[6]  P.J.M. Havinga,et al.  AI-LMAC: an adaptive, information-centric and lightweight MAC protocol for wireless sensor networks , 2004, Proceedings of the 2004 Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing Conference, 2004..

[7]  J. Nunamaker,et al.  Proceedings of the 32nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences , 1999 .

[8]  Ian F. Akyildiz,et al.  Wireless sensor and actor networks: research challenges , 2004, Ad Hoc Networks.

[9]  Deborah Estrin,et al.  Medium access control with coordinated adaptive sleeping for wireless sensor networks , 2004, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.

[10]  Feng Xia,et al.  QoS Challenges and Opportunities in Wireless Sensor/Actuator Networks , 2008, Sensors.

[11]  M. Welsh,et al.  The Regiment Macroprogramming System , 2007, 2007 6th International Symposium on Information Processing in Sensor Networks.

[12]  Mohamed F. Younis,et al.  A survey on routing protocols for wireless sensor networks , 2005, Ad Hoc Networks.

[13]  Wendi B. Heinzelman,et al.  DAPR: a protocol for wireless sensor networks utilizing an application-based routing cost , 2004, 2004 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (IEEE Cat. No.04TH8733).

[14]  Myung J. Lee,et al.  A Comprehensive Performance Study of IEEE 802 . 15 . 4 , 2004 .

[15]  Ian F. Akyildiz,et al.  15. Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks , 2010 .

[16]  Gustavo Alonso,et al.  A virtual machine for sensor networks , 2007, EuroSys '07.

[17]  Wei Hong,et al.  TinyDB: an acquisitional query processing system for sensor networks , 2005, TODS.

[18]  Amy L. Murphy,et al.  TeenyLIME: transiently shared tuple space middleware for wireless sensor networks , 2006, MidSens '06.

[19]  Muneeb Ali,et al.  MMAC: a mobility-adaptive, collision-free MAC protocol for wireless sensor networks , 2005, PCCC 2005. 24th IEEE International Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference, 2005..

[20]  Manuel Díaz,et al.  A Service-Oriented Middleware for Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks , 2009, 2009 Sixth International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations.

[21]  Bhaskar Krishnamachari,et al.  Performance evaluation of the IEEE 802.15.4 MAC for low-rate low-power wireless networks , 2004, IEEE International Conference on Performance, Computing, and Communications, 2004.

[22]  Muhammad Farukh Munir,et al.  Low-Energy, Adaptive, and Distributed MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor-Actuator Networks , 2007, 2007 IEEE 18th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications.

[23]  Viktor K. Prasanna,et al.  The Abstract Task Graph: a methodology for architecture-independent programming of networked sensor systems , 2005, EESR '05.

[24]  Wolfgang Birk,et al.  Project: EU FP7 project WSAN4CIP: Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks for Critical Infrastructure Protection , 2008 .

[25]  Sandeep Neema,et al.  OASiS: A Programming Framework for Service-Oriented Sensor Networks , 2007, 2007 2nd International Conference on Communication Systems Software and Middleware.

[26]  Injong Rhee,et al.  Z-MAC: a hybrid MAC for wireless sensor networks , 2005, SenSys '05.

[27]  Michael R. Lyu,et al.  Reliable Reporting of Delay-Sensitive Events in Wireless Sensor-Actuator Networks , 2006, 2006 IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems.

[28]  Leonidas J. Guibas,et al.  Predictive QoS routing to mobile sinks in wireless sensor networks , 2009, 2009 International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks.

[29]  Azzedine Boukerche,et al.  Proceedings of the 1st ACM international workshop on Quality of service & security in wireless and mobile networks , 2005 .

[30]  Lui Sha,et al.  An implicit prioritized access protocol for wireless sensor networks , 2002, 23rd IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, 2002. RTSS 2002..

[31]  Chenyang Lu,et al.  RAP: a real-time communication architecture for large-scale wireless sensor networks , 2002, Proceedings. Eighth IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium.

[32]  Boleslaw K. Szymanski,et al.  Self-selecting reliable paths for wireless sensor network routing , 2008, Comput. Commun..

[33]  N. Mohamed,et al.  A routing protocol and addressing scheme for oil, gas, and water pipeline monitoring using wireless sensor networks , 2008, 2008 5th IFIP International Conference on Wireless and Optical Communications Networks (WOCN '08).

[34]  Pravin Varaiya,et al.  PEDAMACS: power efficient and delay aware medium access protocol for sensor networks , 2004, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.

[35]  Luca Mottola,et al.  Programming wireless sensor networks , 2011, ACM Comput. Surv..

[36]  Sung-Gi Min,et al.  Priority-based QoS MAC protocol for wireless sensor networks , 2009, 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Parallel & Distributed Processing.

[37]  José M. Troya,et al.  Programming Approaches and Challenges for Wireless Sensor Networks , 2007, 2007 Second International Conference on Systems and Networks Communications (ICSNC 2007).

[38]  P.P. Czapski.  A Survey: MAC Protocols For Applications Of Wireless Sensor Networks , 2006, TENCON 2006 - 2006 IEEE Region 10 Conference.

[39]  Andreas Meier,et al.  Dwarf: Delay-aWAre Robust Forwarding for Energy-Constrained Wireless Sensor Networks , 2007, DCOSS.

[40]  Chenyang Lu,et al.  SPEED: a stateless protocol for real-time communication in sensor networks , 2003, 23rd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, 2003. Proceedings..

[41]  Kin K. Leung,et al.  Cross-Layer Design for QoS in Wireless Mesh Networks , 2009, Wirel. Pers. Commun..

[42]  Mohamed F. Younis,et al.  An energy-aware QoS routing protocol for wireless sensor networks , 2003, 23rd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops, 2003. Proceedings..

[43]  Chen Zhang,et al.  ExScal: elements of an extreme scale wireless sensor network , 2005, 11th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA'05).

[44]  Henning Schulzrinne,et al.  Research and trials for reliable VoIP applications , 2008, Comput. Networks.

[45]  Rajashekhar C. Biradar,et al.  A survey on routing protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks , 2012, 2012 18th IEEE International Conference on Networks (ICON).

[46]  Amy L. Murphy,et al.  Middleware to support sensor network applications , 2004, IEEE Network.

[47]  M.Y. Javed,et al.  A Survey on Routing Protocols and Challenge of Holes in Wireless Sensor Networks , 2008, 2008 International Conference on Advanced Computer Theory and Engineering.

[48]  Mohamed Eltoweissy,et al.  Service-oriented sensor-actuator networks: Promises, challenges, and the road ahead , 2007, Comput. Commun..

[49]  Andrea Conti,et al.  Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks: Technologies, Analysis and Design , 2008 .

[50]  Pramod K. Varshney,et al.  QoS Support in Wireless Sensor Networks: A Survey , 2004, International Conference on Wireless Networks.

[51]  Jianping Yin,et al.  Requirements of Quality of Service in Wireless Sensor Network , 2006, International Conference on Networking, International Conference on Systems and International Conference on Mobile Communications and Learning Technologies (ICNICONSMCL'06).

[52]  Navrati Saxena,et al.  Dynamic duty cycle and adaptive contention window based QoS-MAC protocol for wireless multimedia sensor networks , 2008, Comput. Networks.

[53]  Pieter De Mil.  Wireless sensor and actuator networks in building automation , 2008 .

[54]  Edward M. Roche,et al.  Critical Foundations: Protecting America's Infrastructures , 1998 .

[55]  Chang-Gun Lee,et al.  MMSPEED: multipath Multi-SPEED protocol for QoS guarantee of reliability and. Timeliness in wireless sensor networks , 2006, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.

[56]  B. R. Badrinath,et al.  ReInForM: reliable information forwarding using multiple paths in sensor networks , 2003, 28th Annual IEEE International Conference on Local Computer Networks, 2003. LCN '03. Proceedings..

[57]  Hyung Seok Kim,et al.  Dynamic delay-constrained minimum-energy dissemination in wireless sensor networks , 2005, TECS.

[58]  Thomas Watteyne,et al.  Dual-mode real-time MAC protocol for wireless sensor networks: a validation/simulation approach , 2006, InterSense '06.

[59]  Hossam S. Hassanein,et al.  QoS for data relaying in hierarchical wireless sensor networks , 2005, Q2SWinet '05.

[60]  Hsi-Lu Chao,et al.  A fault-tolerant routing protocol in wireless sensor networks , 2008, Int. J. Sens. Networks.

[61]  Cem Ersoy,et al.  MAC protocols for wireless sensor networks: a survey , 2006, IEEE Communications Magazine.

[62]  Paul J.M. Havinga,et al.  A Lightweight Medium Access Protocol (LMAC) for Wireless Sensor Networks: Reducing Preamble Transmissions and Transceiver State Switches , 2004 .

[63]  Mohamed F. Younis,et al.  Energy-aware routing in cluster-based sensor networks , 2002, Proceedings. 10th IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunications Systems.

[64]  Michael R. Lyu,et al.  A delay-aware reliable event reporting framework for wireless sensor-actuator networks , 2010, Ad Hoc Networks.

[65]  David E. Culler,et al.  Versatile low power media access for wireless sensor networks , 2004, SenSys '04.

[66]  Symeon Papavassiliou,et al.  Adaptive Localized QoS-Constrained Data Aggregation and Processing in Distributed Sensor Networks , 2006, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems.

[67]  Chung Shue Chen,et al.  Real-time QoS support in wireless sensor networks: a survey , 2007 .

[68]  Bhaskar Krishnamachari,et al.  An adaptive energy-efficient and low-latency MAC for data gathering in wireless sensor networks , 2004, 18th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, 2004. Proceedings..

[69]  Koen Langendoen,et al.  An adaptive energy-efficient MAC protocol for wireless sensor networks , 2003, SenSys '03.