WSeH: Proposal for an adaptive monitoring framework for WSNs, with enhanced security and QoS support.

Wireless sensor networks (WSN) are highly distributed self-organized systems, the associated research being growing at a tremendous pace, and targeting various application domains. The successful implementation of such networks is dependent on the enabling technologies (such as digital electronics and wireless communications), as well as the provisioning of Quality of Service (QoS) and various security features in the networks. This paper focuses on the main characteristics and the current development status of the: management and monitoring, security and QoS topics, an overview of the recent progress being given. The paper examines and discusses the challenges of an adaptive monitoring framework (WSeH framework) with enhanced security and QoS support for WSNs, proposing a generic architecture and opening research issues. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]