Citation
Isaac Amundson, Manish Kushwaha, Xenofon Koutsoukos, Sandeep Neema, Janos Sztipanovits. "Efficient Integration of Web Services in Ambient-aware Sensor Network Applications". 3rd IEEE/CreateNet International Workshop on Broadband Advanced Sensor Networks (BaseNets 2006), October, 2006.

Abstract
Sensor webs are heterogeneous collections of sensor devices that collect information and interact with the environment. They consist of wireless sensor networks that are ensembles of small, smart, and cheap sensing and computing devices that permeate the environment as well as high-bandwidth rich sensors such as satellite imaging systems, meteorological stations, air quality stations, and security cameras. Emergency response, homeland security, and many other applications have a very real need to interconnect such diverse networks and access information in real-time. While Internet protocols and Web standards provide well-developed mechanisms for accessing this information, linking such mechanisms with resource-constrained sensor networks is very challenging because of the volatility of the communication links. This paper presents a service-oriented programming model for sensor networks which permits discovery and access of Web services. Sensor network applications are realized as graphs of modular and autonomous services with well-defined interfaces that allow them to be described, published, discovered, and invoked over the network providing a convenient way for integrating services from heterogeneous sensor systems. Our approach provides dynamic discovery, composition, and binding of services based on an efficient localized constraint satisfaction algorithm that can be used for developing ambient-aware applications that adapt to changes in the environment. A tracking application that employs many inexpensive sensor nodes, as well as a Web service, is used to illustrate the approach. Our results demonstrate the feasibility of ambient-aware applications that interconnect wireless sensor networks and Web services.

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  Isaac Amundson, Manish Kushwaha, Xenofon Koutsoukos, Sandeep
  Neema, Janos Sztipanovits. <a
  href="http://chess.eecs.berkeley.edu/pubs/284.html"
  >Efficient Integration of Web Services in Ambient-aware
  Sensor Network Applications</a>, 3rd IEEE/CreateNet
  International Workshop on Broadband Advanced Sensor Networks
  (BaseNets 2006), October, 2006.

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  Isaac Amundson, Manish Kushwaha, Xenofon Koutsoukos, Sandeep
  Neema, Janos Sztipanovits. "Efficient Integration of
  Web Services in Ambient-aware Sensor Network
  Applications". 3rd IEEE/CreateNet International
  Workshop on Broadband Advanced Sensor Networks (BaseNets
  2006), October, 2006.

• BibTeX

  @inproceedings{AmundsonKushwahaKoutsoukosNeemaSztipanovits06_EfficientIntegrationOfWebServicesInAmbientawareSensor,
      author = {Isaac Amundson and Manish Kushwaha and Xenofon
                Koutsoukos and Sandeep Neema and Janos Sztipanovits},
      title = {Efficient Integration of Web Services in
                Ambient-aware Sensor Network Applications},
      booktitle = {3rd IEEE/CreateNet International Workshop on
                Broadband Advanced Sensor Networks (BaseNets 2006)},
      month = {October},
      year = {2006},
      abstract = {Sensor webs are heterogeneous collections of
                sensor devices that collect information and
                interact with the environment. They consist of
                wireless sensor networks that are ensembles of
                small, smart, and cheap sensing and computing
                devices that permeate the environment as well as
                high-bandwidth rich sensors such as satellite
                imaging systems, meteorological stations, air
                quality stations, and security cameras. Emergency
                response, homeland security, and many other
                applications have a very real need to interconnect
                such diverse networks and access information in
                real-time. While Internet protocols and Web
                standards provide well-developed mechanisms for
                accessing this information, linking such
                mechanisms with resource-constrained sensor
                networks is very challenging because of the
                volatility of the communication links. This paper
                presents a service-oriented programming model for
                sensor networks which permits discovery and access
                of Web services. Sensor network applications are
                realized as graphs of modular and autonomous
                services with well-defined interfaces that allow
                them to be described, published, discovered, and
                invoked over the network providing a convenient
                way for integrating services from heterogeneous
                sensor systems. Our approach provides dynamic
                discovery, composition, and binding of services
                based on an efficient localized constraint
                satisfaction algorithm that can be used for
                developing ambient-aware applications that adapt
                to changes in the environment. A tracking
                application that employs many inexpensive sensor
                nodes, as well as a Web service, is used to
                illustrate the approach. Our results demonstrate
                the feasibility of ambient-aware applications that
                interconnect wireless sensor networks and Web
                services.},
      URL = {http://chess.eecs.berkeley.edu/pubs/284.html}
  }
  

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