Component-based Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are approaching an operational stalemate. While sheer emphasis on energy efficiency and resilience aid network longevity, WSNs face many hindering design principals. Prominently, an application-oriented view that isolates WSNs from ubiquitous networks, and nodes with static hardware and functional goals. We present a novel paradigm in the design of WSNs. Our goal is to achieve a resilient architecture that decouples operational mandates from the nodes. We present wirelessly interfaced components, which introduce functionality physically decoupled from the sensing nodes; boosting resilience, dynamicity and resource utilization. This approach dissects the study of nodal capacity to its "connected" components. It also enables re-introducing only the components required to suffice for network operation. More importantly, critical resources in the network will be shared within their neighborhoods. Thus network lifetime will relate to functional cliques of dynamic nodes. We present our paradigms with insights into application and design novelty.