On network management of wireless sensor networks: Challenges, solutions and research trends

Wireless sensor networks have become a popular research area of distributed computing. It is the emerging area of pervasive computing, for supporting daily life applications of human usage in future and could provide large amount of benefits to the society, by efficient delivery of sensed information. Network management of WSNs plays an important role for the efficient working of whole network and application. It is the research area that is recently gaining the attraction from research community. This chapter compiles some related information on the basis of studied literature regarding wireless sensors network management, including WSN background, issues and challenges, proposed solutions, and research trends.