Global WSN developments: Fractal or chaos?

The ubiquitous developments of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) for data acquisition have migrated significantly over time from traditional data networks to realtime distributed network for sensor data fusion. However, the fractal geometry of sensor distributions and chaotic dynamics of WSNs have questioned the programmability techniques, computational capability, energy-efficiency and fault tolerance, positioning and location management of current frameworks in WSN applications. Thus, this study presents the status quo and visions of the next-generation WSN technologies, the self-similarity in efficient WSNs for topology control, and the observed pattern recognition in acquired data - toward achieving efficient data distribution.