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Sensors 2012, 12, 2175-2207; doi:10.3390/s120202175 OPEN ACCESS sensors ISSN 1424-8220 /journal/sensors Article A Survey on Virtualization of Wireless Sensor Networks Md. Motaharul Islam 1, Mohammad Mehedi Hassan 2, Ga-Won Lee 1 and Eui-Nam Huh 1,* 1 Internet Computing and Network Security (ICNS) Laboratory, Department of Computer Engineering, College of Electronics and Information, Kyung Hee University, Yongin-si 446-701, Korea; E-Mails: motahar@khu.ac.kr (M.M.I.); gawon@khu.ac.kr (G.-W.L.) 2 Research Chair of Pervasive and Mobile Computing, College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, P.O. Box 51178, Riyadh 11543, Saudi Arabia; E-Mail: mmhassan@.sa * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: johnhuh@khu.ac.kr; Tel.: +82-31-201-2454; Fax: +82-31-204-3778. Received: 21 January 2012; in revised form: 10 February 2012 / Accepted: 14 February 2012 / Published: 15 February 2012 Abstract: Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are gaining tremendous importance thanks to their broad range of commercial applications such as in smart home automation, health-care and industrial automation. In these applications multi-vendor and heterogeneous sensor nodes are deployed. Due to strict administrative control over the specific WSN domains, communication barriers, conflicting goals and the economic interests of different WSN sensor node vendors, it is difficult to introduce a large scale federated WSN. By allowing