A Web Services based Approach for Resource-Constrained Wireless Sensor Networks
The large diffusion of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) in our
contemporary life with their numerous applications has led to a
huge heterogeneity. This heterogeneity makes the possibility of
discovering and collecting data from the wireless sensors more
and more difficult. Indeed, WSNs are currently developed around
different communities of sensor and user types, with each
community typically relying on its own system, metadata
semantics, data format and software. Therefore, the ability to
discover and utilize a new sensor asset is typically hindered by
incompatible services and encodings which can cause
interoperability between different sensor nodes within the same
WSN. Service-Oriented-Architecture (SOA) is one of the key
paradigms that enables the deployment of services at large-scale
over the Internet domain and its integration with WSNs could
open new pathways for novel applications and research. Despite
the need to integrate SOA with WSNs, only handful efforts are
underway to achieve the goal. In this paper, we tackle integration
of SOA with WSNs by proposing a Lightweight Representational
State Transfer (REST)-based Web Services approach to treat
sensors in an interoperable, platform-independent and uniform
way.
Keywords: Wireless Sensor Networks, Service-Oriented Architecture, REST
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Sana Baccar
Sana Baccar is a PhD student in the Computer and Embedded Systems (CES) research lab at the National School of Engineering of Sfax, Tunisia. Her research interests include Service Oriented Computing, Wireless Sensors Networks, and Semantic Web.
Mohsen Rouached
Mohsen Rouached is currently acting as an assistant professor in the College of Computers and Information Technology at Taif University. He received his M.S and Ph.D in computer science from Nancy University in 2005 and 2008 respectively. His research interests span over several areas related to Service Oriented Computing, Business Processes, Security, Privacy, and Forensics Management, Services Semantics, and Wireless Sensors Networks. He has published over 40 research papers in these domains. He serves as program committee member and reviewer at many international journals and conferences and has been participating in several research projects.
Sana Baccar
Sana Baccar is a PhD student in the Computer and Embedded Systems (CES) research lab at the National School of Engineering of Sfax, Tunisia. Her research interests include Service Oriented Computing, Wireless Sensors Networks, and Semantic Web.
Mohsen Rouached
Mohsen Rouached is currently acting as an assistant professor in the College of Computers and Information Technology at Taif University. He received his M.S and Ph.D in computer science from Nancy University in 2005 and 2008 respectively. His research interests span over several areas related to Service Oriented Computing, Business Processes, Security, Privacy, and Forensics Management, Services Semantics, and Wireless Sensors Networks. He has published over 40 research papers in these domains. He serves as program committee member and reviewer at many international journals and conferences and has been participating in several research projects.
