Title: SENSTRAC: scalable querying of sensor networks from mobile platforms using tracking-style queries

Authors: Stefan Pleisch, Kenneth P Birman

Addresses: Department of Computer Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA. ' Department of Computer Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA

Abstract: Future applications running on mobile platforms will sometimes need to query sensors and track sensor data over time. This paper proposes a novel, but natural, solution to querying sensors from mobile platforms, based on the publish-subscribe paradigm. Various options are discussed and the most promising one is included into an implementation. Our evaluation focuses on scalability.

Keywords: mobile networks; ad hoc networks; MANET; sensor networks; query; publish-subscribe; scalability; SENSTRAC; querying sensors.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSNET.2008.019009

International Journal of Sensor Networks, 2008 Vol.3 No.4, pp.266 - 280

Published online: 27 Jun 2008 *

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