A service-oriented approach for in-network computations in wireless networks

Authors:
Fahad Aijaz;Seyed Mohammad Adeli;Bernhard Walke
Affiliations:
Faculty 6 Communication Networks, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen;Faculty 6 Communication Networks, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen;Faculty 6 Communication Networks, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen
Venue:
WOCN'09 Proceedings of the Sixth international conference on Wireless and Optical Communications Networks
Year:
2009

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Abstract

The concept of Mobile Web Services (Mob-WS) is catching pace within research communities due to rapid classification of mobile devices enabling pervasive environments. Beside consumer oriented use cases, another aspect of utilizing the potential of Mob-WS is to use them as computation resources within a wireless network. Such Mob-WS are called "In-network Mob-WS". In this paper we propose an approach of using in-network Mob-WS for better management and presentation of wireless networks. A concept of using Mob-WS as back-end resources for in-network computations is presented by proposing a MobWS middleware hosting long-lived asynchronous services. With a specialized focus on Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), a notion of collector nodes is introduced perform Mob-WS based in-network computations and collaborations enabling control, monitoring and better representation of the network to some node in the higher hierarchy. The In-network computation and service oriented communication requirements are also discussed followed by a proof-of-concept prototype and priliminary performance evaluations.