Table 1.

Available WSN management systems evaluation against the design criteria.

Management Scheme	Functionality	Energy Efficiency	Robustness	Scalability	Adaptability
MANNA [25]	Policy based framework, fault detection	NA	NA	NA	NA
BOSS [32]	Network state retrieval, power management	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Agilla [31]	Event detection	Yes	No	No	Yes
Sectoral Sweeper [31]	Switching node on/off	Yes	No	No	No
Intelligent Agent- Based Power Management [31]	low power management	Yes	No	No	Yes
Mobile Agent Based Power Management [31]	Policy based management	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
RRP [31]	Data aggregation	Yes	No	No	No
SNMS [31]	Health and event data collection	Yes	Yes	No	No
SNMP [31]	Network function definition and monitoring	No	Yes	No	Yes
WSNManagement [33]	Performance and fault management	No	Yes	No	Yes
WinMS [31]	Synchronisation, local repair and state retrieval	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
SenOS [31]	Triggering node on/off	Yes	No	No	No
AppSleep [31]	Power Management	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Energy level management [31]	Power management	Yes	Yes	No	No
EASA [44]	Self-sustaining energy management	Yes	Yes	No	No
MOTE-VIEW [52]	Network state and visualisation	Yes	No	Yes	No
EPMOSt [57]	Passive network monitoring	Yes	Yes	No	Yes