Paper Info
Title
Effective Metadata Management in Federated Sensor Networks
Abstract
As sensor networks become increasingly popular, heterogeneous sensor networks are being interconnected into federated sensor networks and provide huge volumes of sensor data to large user communities for a variety of applications. Effective metadata management plays a crucial role in processing and properly interpreting raw sensor measurement data, and needs to be performed in a collaborative fashion. Previous data management work has concentrated on metadata and data as two separate entities and has not provided specific support for joint real-time processing of metadata and sensor data. In this paper we propose a framework that allows effective sensor data and metadata management based on real-time metadata creation and join processing over federated sensor networks. The framework is established on three key mechanisms: (i) distributed metadata joins to allow streaming sensor data to be efficiently processed with their associated metadata, regardless of their location in the network, (ii) automated metadata generation to permit users to define monitoring conditions or operations for extracting and storing metadata from streaming sensor data, (iii) advanced metadata search utilizing various techniques specifically designed for sensor metadata querying and visualization. This framework is currently deployed and used as the backbone of a concrete application in environmental science and engineering, the Swiss Experiment, which runs a wide variety of measurements and experiments for environmental hazard forecasting and warning.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/SUTC.2010.29
SUTC/UMC
Keywords
Field
DocType
associated metadata,sensor data,federated sensor network,metadata management,effective sensor data,sensor metadata,raw sensor measurement data,federated sensor networks,effective metadata management,advanced metadata search,heterogeneous sensor network,automated metadata generation,spine,data mining,sensor network,semantics,collaboration,hazards,meta data,concrete,data management,real time processing,data visualization,distributed databases,real time,environmental science,sensors,real time systems,internet
Metadata repository,Metadata,Meta Data Services,Computer science,Data mapping,Data element,Data dictionary,Metadata modeling,Metadata management,Database
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4244-7087-7
12
0.81
References 
Authors
10
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hoyoung Jeung169131.19
Sofiane Sarni2755.64
Ioannis Paparrizos3182.32
Saket Sathe418216.43
Karl Aberer56459662.26
Nicholas Dawes6293.34
Thanasis G. Papaioannou730724.49
Michael Lehning8264.86