OASiS: A Service-Oriented Architecture for Ambient-Aware Sensor Networks

@incollection{citeulike:2587911, abstract = {Heterogeneous sensor networks are comprised of ensembles of small, smart, and cheap sensing and computing devices that permeate the environment, as well as resource intensive sensors such as satellite imaging systems, meteorological stations, and security cameras. Emergency response, homeland security, and many other applications have a very real need to interconnect these diverse networks and access information in real-time. Web service technologies provide well-developed mechanisms for exchanging data between heterogeneous computing devices, but they cannot be used in resource-constrained wireless sensor networks. This paper presents OASiS, a lightweight service-oriented architecture for sensor networks, which provides dynamic service discovery and can be used to develop ambient-aware applications that adapt to changes in the network and the environment. An important advantage of OASiS is that it allows seamless integration with Web services. We have developed a middleware implementation that supports OASiS, and a simple tracking application to illustrate the approach. Our results demonstrate the feasibility of a service-oriented architecture for wireless sensor networks.}, author = {Koutsoukos, Xenofon and Kushwaha, Manish and Amundson, Isaac and Neema, Sandeep and Sztipanovits, Janos }, citeulike-article-id = {2587911}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-540-77419-8\_8}, journal = {Composition of Embedded Systems. Scientific and Industrial Issues}, keywords = {ref}, pages = {125--149}, posted-at = {2008-03-25 23:49:05}, priority = {3}, title = {OASiS: A Service-Oriented Architecture for Ambient-Aware Sensor Networks}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77419-8\_8}, year = {2007} }

TY - CHAP ID - citeulike:2587911 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2587911 TI - OASiS: A Service-Oriented Architecture for Ambient-Aware Sensor Networks JF - Composition of Embedded Systems. Scientific and Industrial Issues SP - 125 EP - 149 N2 - Heterogeneous sensor networks are comprised of ensembles of small, smart, and cheap sensing and computing devices that permeate the environment, as well as resource intensive sensors such as satellite imaging systems, meteorological stations, and security cameras. Emergency response, homeland security, and many other applications have a very real need to interconnect these diverse networks and access information in real-time. Web service technologies provide well-developed mechanisms for exchanging data between heterogeneous computing devices, but they cannot be used in resource-constrained wireless sensor networks. This paper presents OASiS, a lightweight service-oriented architecture for sensor networks, which provides dynamic service discovery and can be used to develop ambient-aware applications that adapt to changes in the network and the environment. An important advantage of OASiS is that it allows seamless integration with Web services. We have developed a middleware implementation that supports OASiS, and a simple tracking application to illustrate the approach. Our results demonstrate the feasibility of a service-oriented architecture for wireless sensor networks. KW - ref AU - Koutsoukos, Xenofon AU - Kushwaha, Manish AU - Amundson, Isaac AU - Neema, Sandeep AU - Sztipanovits, Janos PY - 2007/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77419-8_8 ER -