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iSensNet: an infrastructure for research and development in wireless sensor networks

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This paper describes iSensNet, an infrastructure that we designed and implemented for various research and development projects in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). iSensNet is composed of a WSN platform and an event publish/subscribe middleware. On the WSN platform, users can test their protocols of any and all non-physical layers; the platform provides real time performance evaluation of the protocols. With the provided middleware, iSensNet is able to accept event subscriptions, to decompose an event to sub-events, to build up event detection trees composed of these sub-events, to collaborate in detecting the sub-events, and handle the event for various application programs. This paper focuses on the design of iSensNet, taking into consideration the severe resource constraints despite the high performance requirements of the applications.

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  1. Department of Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

    Jiannong Cao, Xuefeng Liu & Yi Lai

  2. Department of Computer Science, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510006, China

    Hejun Wu

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Cao, J., Wu, H., Liu, X. et al. iSensNet: an infrastructure for research and development in wireless sensor networks. Front. Comput. Sci. China 4, 339–353 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11704-010-0384-9

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