1A Survey of Wireless Sensor Network Interconnection to Exte

A Survey of Wireless Sensor Network Interconnection to External Networks Agnius Liutkevicius#1, Arunas Vrubliauskas#2, Egidijus Kazanavicius#3 #Real Time Computing Systems Centre, Kaunas University of Technology Studentu St. 50-213, Kaunas, Lithuania 1 2 3 agnius@ifko.ktu.lt, aras@ifko.ktu.lt, ekaza@ifko.ktu.lt Abstract— This paper aims at investigating the WSN (wireless 2) Overlay-based approach. sensor network) connectivity to external networks and infrastructures. It addresses research regarding existing techniques, mechanisms and devices that will provide connectivity of WSNs to external networks. I. INTRODUCTION Power limitations are a major constraint of WSNs and are considered as a restricting factor of the interconnection functionality. These limitations must be formulated as a complete set of WSN capabilities that will be used as restrictions to the interconnection requirements and Fig. 1. WSN interconnection to external networks techniques. specification. In this context, the architecture and protocol particularities of the interconnected networks are studied. B. Gateway-based approach Alternative network structures and interconnection Sensor networks often are intended to run specialized architectures including gateways, brokers, and distributed