Pritchard, SWMalekian, RHancke, GPAbu-Mahfouz, Adnan MI2018-03-162018-03-162017-10Pritchard, S.W. et al. 2017. Improving northbound interface communication in SDWSN. The 43rd Annual Conference of the IEEE on Industrial Electronics Society, IECON 2017, 29 October to 1 November 2017, Beijing, China978-1-5386-1127-2978-1-5386-1128-9DOI: 10.1109/IECON.2017.8217468http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8217468/http://hdl.handle.net/10204/10112Copyright: 2017 IEEE. Due to copyright restrictions, the attached PDF file contains the accepted version of the published paper. For access to the published version, please consult the publisher's website.Software-Defined Wireless Sensor Networking (SDWSN) is an emerging paradigm that seeks to alleviate the inherent resource constraint issues present in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) by adopting a Software-Defined Networking (SDN) approach to the management of WSN. This SDWSN paradigm is said to play a crucial role in both the developing Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm and the development of smart city grids. The northbound and southbound SDWSN interfaces are important for realizing efficient network understanding and programmability, however there has been a lack of attention towards the northbound interface as most work done has been surrounding the southbound interface. Therefore some work is needed to improve the northbound interface so that it may allow for a better degree of network programmability. In order to achieve network programmability and automation, there is a need for a metadata based Application Programming Interface (API). The work done in this paper seeks to improve the northbound interface communications by addressing the issue of a metadata in REST as well as identifying potential platforms for the development of a metadata framework.enSoftware-Defined Wireless Sensor NetworkingSDWSNWireless Sensor NetworksWSNConference PresentationPritchard, S., Malekian, R., Hancke, G., & Abu-Mahfouz, A. M. (2017). Improving northbound interface communication in SDWSN. IEEE. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/10112Pritchard, SW, R Malekian, GP Hancke, and Adnan MI Abu-Mahfouz. "Improving northbound interface communication in SDWSN." (2017): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/10112Pritchard S, Malekian R, Hancke G, Abu-Mahfouz AM, Improving northbound interface communication in SDWSN; IEEE; 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/10112 .TY - Conference Presentation AU - Pritchard, SW AU - Malekian, R AU - Hancke, GP AU - Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MI AB - Software-Defined Wireless Sensor Networking (SDWSN) is an emerging paradigm that seeks to alleviate the inherent resource constraint issues present in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) by adopting a Software-Defined Networking (SDN) approach to the management of WSN. This SDWSN paradigm is said to play a crucial role in both the developing Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm and the development of smart city grids. The northbound and southbound SDWSN interfaces are important for realizing efficient network understanding and programmability, however there has been a lack of attention towards the northbound interface as most work done has been surrounding the southbound interface. Therefore some work is needed to improve the northbound interface so that it may allow for a better degree of network programmability. In order to achieve network programmability and automation, there is a need for a metadata based Application Programming Interface (API). The work done in this paper seeks to improve the northbound interface communications by addressing the issue of a metadata in REST as well as identifying potential platforms for the development of a metadata framework. DA - 2017-10 DB - ResearchSpace DP - CSIR KW - Software-Defined Wireless Sensor Networking KW - SDWSN KW - Wireless Sensor Networks KW - WSN LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za PY - 2017 SM - 978-1-5386-1127-2 SM - 978-1-5386-1128-9 T1 - Improving northbound interface communication in SDWSN TI - Improving northbound interface communication in SDWSN UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/10112 ER -