Goals and Policies for Sensor Network Management

Citation

Campbell GA & Turner KJ (2009) Goals and Policies for Sensor Network Management. In: Benveniste M, Braem B, Dini C C, Fortino G, Karnapke R, Mauri J & Monsi M (eds.) SENSORCOMM '08: Proceedings of the 2008 Second International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications. SENSORCOMM '08: Second International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications, Cap Esterel, France, 25.08.2008-31.08.2008. Washington DC, USA: IEEE Computer Society, pp. 354-359. http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~kjt/research/pdf/sens-goal.pdf

Abstract
This paper describes a goal-directed, policy-based approach to managing sensor networks in the context of a wind farm. It describes the use of policies to enable end-users to detect and handle events, and discusses how high-level goals can be used to configure both the sensor network and the monitored system. Such use of goals and policies for sensor network management is a new area of research. While this paper discusses the approach in relation to the wind farm domain, the frameworks described are applicable to sensor network management in general.