
106 Mobile Computing
The power management plane manages how a sensor node uses its power across all layers,
since power efficiency is an essential constraint in WSNs. For example, a sensor node may turn
off its receiver after receiving a message.
In some applications, sensor nodes may be mobile. In such applications, the mobility man-
agement plane manages mobility of nodes by detecting and registering their movement, so that
a route back to the user is always maintained.
The task management plane balances and schedules the sensing tasks given to a specific
region, since not all sensor nodes in that region are required to perform the sensing task at ...