Paper Info
Title
Service discovery and composition in body area networks.
Abstract
In pervasive environments, Body Area Networks (BANs) are characterized by the mobility of their users. BANs can continuously interact with each other, thus enabling the provision of new applications and services at runtime. New complex services can be provided by composing simpler services available on neighbouring network nodes. However, since the topology of BANs is continuously changing due to users' movements, it is unfeasible to specify a-priori all possible configurations under which a given complex service can be composed. In order to address this issue, we introduce a two--layered service discovery and composition architecture, that proactively notifies a distributed service directory with changes in service availability. In order to cope with the network mobility and intermittent connectivity, our approach is to cluster nodes in the sensor network based on their connectivity patterns. We use a multi--agent state machine to recognize the availability of complex services and to provide them. Our solution is validated by a prototype implementation of our architecture, by the study of the statistical model of complex services, and by experimental evaluations.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2008
BODYNETS
body area network,network mobility,sensor network,simpler service,layered service discovery,composition architecture,service availability,complex service,neighbouring network node,service directory,new complex service
Field
DocType
Citations 
Architecture,Computer science,Directory,Computer network,Node (networking),Finite-state machine,Statistical model,Service discovery,Wireless sensor network,Distributed services
Conference
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
8
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Matteo Coloberti120.36
Clemens Lombriser226920.66
Daniel Roggen31851137.05
Gerhard Tröster42493250.70
Renata Guarneri5144.25
Daniele Riboni6122360.98