Wireless technologies usually have very limited computing, memory, and battery power that require the optimal management of network resources to increase network performance. The optimization of these network resources provides an efficient network topology, traffic control, routing, and data aggregation. This study presents a qualitative and quantitative investigation to evaluate the efficient network resource management mechanisms for software defined wireless sensor networks (SDN-enabled WSNs) from the beginning of network design to reliable data delivery. In this paper, a taxonomy of network resource management research studies is proposed. A detailed analysis of SDN-enabled WSNs architecture, SDN controllers, topology discovery, routing approaches, flow rules installation, and data aggregation is also discussed. Furthermore, the comparative analysis of resource provisioning methods along with various simulation tools is presented. Moreover, this review outlines open research challenges and prospective future directions for network resource management in SDN-enabled WSNs.

无线技术通常具有非常有限的计算、内存和电池电量，需要对网络资源进行优化管理以提高网络性能。这些网络资源的优化提供了高效的网络拓扑、流量控制、路由和数据聚合。本研究提出了一项定性和定量调查，以评估从网络设计开始到可靠数据传输的软件定义无线传感器网络（支持 SDN 的 WSN）的有效网络资源管理机制。在本文中，提出了网络资源管理研究的分类法。还讨论了支持 SDN 的 WSN 架构、SDN 控制器、拓扑发现、路由方法、流规则安装和数据聚合的详细分析。此外，介绍了资源供应方法与各种模拟工具的比较分析。此外，本综述概述了支持 SDN 的 WSN 中网络资源管理的开放性研究挑战和未来展望。