Resource Management Tools

Sensor networks perform and are used in many different kinds of fields, but are especially given tasks, which are difficult and almost impossible for a human to do. Besides monitoring the environment and collecting necessary information, sensor networks have to manage and supply themselves with essential resources to perform the tasks that were allocated to the whole network. This paper focuses on resource management and the development of effective resource management tools, which has to face many challenges due to resource limitations, such as energy consumption and scalability. Peloton and Tiny Network Manager cover up most of these challenges with different approaches. While Peloton uses a ticket abstraction to distribute allocations and perform optimization on the whole sensor network process, the Tiny Network Manager has an implemented “request-reply-mechanism” to manage its assignments and resources.