A survey on in-network querying and tracking services for wireless sensor networks

  • Authors:
  • Zuhal Can;Murat Demirbas

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, NY 14260, United States;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, NY 14260, United States

  • Venue:
  • Ad Hoc Networks
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

In wireless sensor networks, querying services purpose to detect static events while tracking services continuously monitor mobile events. This paper surveys and discusses in-network querying and tracking services for static and mobile networks. Querying and tracking services are categorized by tree-based, hierarchical cluster-based, geometrical and hash-based. Mobility effects of network units and several design metrics including energy-efficiency, distance-sensitivity, scalability and fault-tolerance are also discussed. The paper includes open research issues for querying and tracking services in various domains.