Sensor-Actuator Networks with TBox Snippets

  • Authors:
  • Tomasz Rybicki;Jarosław Domaszewicz

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Telecommunications, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland;Institute of Telecommunications, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland

  • Venue:
  • GPC '09 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Advances in Grid and Pervasive Computing
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Wireless sensor and actuator networks (WSAN) consist of many nodes with limited computing resources. The nodes in such networks may provide different services, which gives rise to the possibility to compose the services at runtime. In order to fully exploit the power of such a service-oriented approach, the services need to be properly described. We present a novel approach to service-oriented architectures for networks of resource-constrained nodes. The services are described ontologically. Each node carries a tiny piece of a full domain ontology, needed to describe the node's service. The descriptions of services available in the environment are merged at runtime. This leads to a lean, runtime version of the domain ontology, suitable for resource-constrained nodes. The runtime ontology is then processed to answer queries about available composite services.