Article in Proceedings INPROC-2005-21

BibliographyBauer, Martin; Rothermel, Kurt: An Architecture for Observing PhysicalWorld Events.
In: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems: ICPADS 2005; Fukuoka, Japan, July 20-22, 2005.
University of Stuttgart : Collaborative Research Center SFB 627 (Nexus: World Models for Mobile Context-Based Systems).
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IEEE Computer Society, July 2005.
Article in Proceedings (Conference Paper).
CR-SchemaC.2.4 (Distributed Systems)
H.3.3 (Information Search and Retrieval)
H.3.4 (Information Storage and Retrieval Systems and Software)
Keywordsdistributed systems; event service; event service architecture; event observation; real-world events; world model; distributed world model
Abstract

In this paper we investigate the observation of physical world events, i.e. events that occur in the physical world, and are observed through model data, part of which is collected by sensors. The physical world events of interest here are those that are suitable for proactively supporting mobile users. This means that they have to be on the same highabstraction level as perceived by the user. In a large-scale system as we envision it, the model data needed for the observation of these high-level physical world events may be distributed over multiple servers.

We first present a requirement analysis. Then we propose an event service architecture that fulfills the requirements. Finally, we show the scalability of the approach through an evaluation based on a prototype implementation.

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ContactMartin Bauer mabauer@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de
Department(s)University of Stuttgart, Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Distributed Systems
Project(s)SFB-627, A2 (University of Stuttgart, Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Distributed Systems)
Entry dateApril 10, 2005