Phenomenon-aware sensor database systems

  • Authors:
  • M. H. Ali

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Purdue University

  • Venue:
  • EDBT'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Current Trends in Database Technology
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Recent advances in large-scale sensor-network technologies enable the deployment of a huge number of sensors in the surrounding environment. Sensors do not live in isolation. Instead, close-by sensors experience similar environmental conditions. Hence, close-by sensors may indulge in a correlated behavior and generate a “phenomenon”. A phenomenon is characterized by a group of sensors that show “similar” behavior over a period of time. Examples of detectable phenomena include the propagation over time of a pollution cloud or an oil spill region. In this research, we propose a framework to detect and track various forms of phenomena in a sensor field. This framework empowers sensor database systems with phenomenon-awareness capabilities. Phenomenon-aware sensor database systems use high-level knowledge about phenomena in the sensor field to control the acquisition of sensor data and to optimize subsequent user queries. As a vehicle for our research, we build the Nile-PDT system, a framework for Phenomenon Detection and Tracking inside Nile, a prototype data stream management system developed at Purdue University.