Issues of Wireless Sensor Network Management

In future application environments, wireless sensor networks may comprise tens of thousands of nodes and multiple applications will be executed concurrently. Until now, WSNs and their applications have been developed without considering a management scheme. In this article we discuss the management technologies for WSNs. We identify what is SNM and its necessities. Based on multi-sensor management technologies in data fusion, we propose a feedback management framework for WSNs. Finally, a macro-micro management architecture for hierarchical WSN is also proposed.