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Recommendation ITU-T Y.4701/H.641

SNMP-based sensor network management framework

1 Scope
This Recommendation provides an SNMP-based sensor network management framework. The
primary purpose of this Recommendation is to describe the framework of integrated sensor network
management which can be used to manage heterogeneous sensor networks. The scope of this
Recommendation includes:

– overall architecture of framework
– functional entities of framework
– object identifier allocation for MIB
– object identifier translation between SNMP and sensor network management protocol.

2 References

The following ITU-T Recommendations and other references contain provisions which, through
reference in this text, constitute provisions of this Recommendation. At the time of publication, the
editions indicated were valid. All Recommendations and other references are subject to revision;
users of this Recommendation are therefore encouraged to investigate the possibility of applying the
most recent edition of the Recommendations and other references listed below. A list of the
currently valid ITU-T Recommendations is regularly published. The reference to a document within
this Recommendation does not give it, as a stand-alone document, the status of a Recommendation.

[ITU-T Y.2221] Recommendation ITU-T Y.2221 (2010), Requirements for support of
Ubiquitous Sensor Network (USN) applications and services in the NGN
environment.
[ITU-T Y.2201] Recommendation ITU-T Y.2201 (2009), Requirements and capabilities for
ITU-T NGN.

[IETF RFC 3411] IETF RFC 3411 (2002), An Architecture for Describing Simple Network
Management Protocol (SNMP) Management Frameworks.

3 Definitions

3.1 Terms defined elsewhere

This Recommendation uses the following terms defined elsewhere:

3.1.1 context awareness [ITU-T Y.2201]: Context awareness is a capability to determine or
influence a next action in telecommunication or process by referring to the status of relevant
entities, which form a coherent environment as a context.
3.1.2 management information base [IETF RFC 3411]: A collection of managed objects,
residing in a virtual information store.

3.1.3 sensor [ITU-T Y.2221]: An electronic device that senses a physical condition or chemical
compound and delivers an electronic signal proportional to the observed characteristic.

3.1.4 sensor network [ITU-T Y.2221]: A network comprised of interconnected sensor nodes
exchanging sensed data by wired or wireless communication.
3.1.5 sensor node [ITU-T Y.2221]: A device consisting of sensor(s) and optional actuator(s)
with capabilities of sensed data processing and networking.

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