Marine Sensor Networks and Ocean Observatories. A Policy Based Management Approach

Sensor networks for environmental data acquisition will play an important role in the development of future large data acquisition systems, particularly in oceanographic observation and operational oceanography. This paper will show the applicability of policy based network management (PBNM) on marine sensor networks (MSN) and networked ocean observatories aiming to overcome the lack of flexibility imposed by more traditional network management paradigms.