h efforts in the design of protocols and frameworks for Downloaded: 4/15/2022 9:44:49 AM Nova Southeastern University IP Address: 137.52.76.29 Software-Defined Networking Paradigm in Wireless Sensor Networks SDWSN. These frameworks are generally only theoretical studies and simulated the proposed ideas. However, there is lacks of real time implementation of SDWSN framework in order to observe the actual benefits of SDN paradigm. So there is an open research challenge for implementation and evaluation of the proposed SDWSN framework over the SDN based sensor nodes. Standardization of North Bound and South Bound Interface: The main aims of the north bound and south bound interface in SDWSN to facilitate different kinds of interactions with the SDN controllers. In order to provide interoperability, there is a need to standardize the interaction rules of both API. 10. Security: In the literature, most of the research works in the area of SDWSN focus on the architectural aspect of the network. In the reference to the SDWSN, there is a need to consider security issues such as threats to the compromise a SDN controller by the attackers, secure programmability of the SDN enabled sensor nodes etc. CONCLUSION In this chapter, a generic framework for SDWSN and its different components are discussed. This chapter also discussed advantages of the SDN paradigm and flexibility and control offered by this paradigm in the protocol design for different operation in WSN. An overview of software defined networking model proposed for wireless sensor networks and SDN based resource management, routing, sleep scheduling algorithm, localization algorithms are discussed. In last, detailed discussions of open research challenges in the area of SDWSN are presented. REFERENCES Akyildiz, I. F., Su, W., Sankarasubramaniam, Y., & Cayirci, E. (2002). Wireless sensor networks : A survey. Computer Networks, 38(4), 393-422. doi: :10.1016/ S1389-1286(01)00302-4 Anastasi, G., Conti, M., Di Francesco, M., & Passarella, A. (2009). Energy conservation 