Title
Achieving Availability and Reliability in Wireless Sensor Networks Applications
Abstract
Recently, the use of wireless sensor networks has spread to applications areas that are not viable or cost-efficient to be run on other types of networks. The majority of these applications should be run continuously and reliably without interruption. Hence, the two significant quality factors that should be nowadays taken into account in developing wireless sensor networks applications are 'availability' and 'reliability' of application services. The specific characteristics and constraints of wireless sensor networks require a different interpretation of these two factors when developing applications for such networks. In this paper, we propose a middleware layer mechanism for satisfying these two factors. We propose an event-based middleware service that is specifically designed for wireless sensor networks in which a group of sensor nodes forms a cluster and a replicated service is run on each cluster head. The communication model among cluster members and cluster head is based on the publish/subscribe scheme. We show how the replicated services and communication model in cluster nodes increases the availability and reliability of applications running under the proposed middleware.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1109/ARES.2006.21
ARES
Keywords
Field
DocType
applications area,cluster node,sensor nodes form,cluster member,middleware layer mechanism,event-based middleware service,wireless sensor networks applications,cluster head,wireless sensor network,achieving availability,communication model,wireless sensor networks application,intelligent sensors,satisfiability,application software,cost efficiency,publish subscribe,availability,quality factor,wireless sensor networks,intelligent networks,computer networks,middleware
Middleware,Key distribution in wireless sensor networks,Computer science,Intelligent sensor,Computer network,Models of communication,Mobile wireless sensor network,Intelligent Network,Application software,Wireless sensor network,Distributed computing
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-7695-2567-9
2
0.50
References 
Authors
8
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Amirhosein Taherkordi114213.20
Majid Alkaee Taleghan2344.31
Mohsen Sharifi338655.19