Software-defined networking (SDN) decouples data and control plane, ie, forwarding
elements are remotely configured by centralized controllers instead through distributed
control protocols. Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have mostly been controlled in a
distributed way, but its configuration challenges are complex and can be theoretically better
solved with network-wide knowledge–the solution just needs to be configured on the
distributed sensor nodes. This calls for SDN in WSNs and so that software-defined WSNs …

Abstract Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are commonly used information technologies of
modern networking and computing platforms. Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) consist of
low power devices that are distributed in geographically isolated areas. Sensors are
arranged in clusters. Each cluster defines a vital node which is known as a cluster head
(CH). Each CH collects the sensed data from its sensor nodes to be transmitted to a base
station (BS). Sensors have deployed with batteries that cannot be replaced. The energy …