Table 2.

SDN-based network and topology management architectures.

Management Architecture	Management Feature	Controller Configuration	Control Traffic Channel	Configuration and Monitoring	Scalability and Localization	Communication Management
Sensor OpenFlow [20,21]	SDN support protocol	Distributed and Centralized	in-band and out-band	√		√
SDWN [60]	Duty cycling, aggregation and routing	Distributed	in-band	√
SDN-WISE [78]	programming simplicity, aggregation	Distributed	in-band	√
Smart [14]	Efficiency in resource allocation	Centralized	in-band		√
SDCSN [88]	Network reliability and QoS	Distributed	in-band		√
TinySDN [69,118]	in-band traffic control	Distributed	in-band		√
Virtual Overlay [59,87,90]	network flexibility	Distributed	in-band		√
Context-based [91,92]	network scalability and performance	Distributed	in-band		√
CRLB [100]	node localization	Centralized	in-band		√
multi-hop [108]	traffic and energy control	Distributed and Centralized	in-band			√
TinySDM [117]	network task measurement	-	in-band	√