Factors influencing the Wireless Sensor Network Design

Abstract

Wireless Sensor Networks have enormous potential because they expand human ability to monitor and interact remotely with the physical world. Smart sensors are able to collect huge amount of hitherto unknown data, which will pave the way for a new class of computing applications. Sensors can be deployed and accessed remotely where it is not viable to lay data and power lines. They yield fine grained pictures of real-world phenomena that are currently modeled only on a large scale. Nevertheless, to exploit the full potential of sensor networks, we must first address the peculiar limitations of these special networks and the resulting technical issues. For different application areas, there are different technical issues that researchers are currently resolving. This paper presents technical issues influencing Wireless Sensor Network design like Hardware constraints, Network Reliability, Production cost, Transmission media, Time Synchronization, Security and Privacy, Coverage, Heterogeneity, Application, dependently, Localization, Scalability, Data aggregation, Data rate, Topology control, Power consumption, Self configurability, Dependability, QoS, Data centeredness and Simplicity. These factors are significant because they serve as a guideline to design a protocol or an algorithm for WSN.