Efficient XML data and query integration in the wireless sensor network engineering process

Nils Hoeller*, Christoph Reinke, Jana Neumann, Sven Groppe, Christian Werner, Volker Linnemann

*Corresponding author for this work
2 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

Purpose: In the last decade, XML has become the de facto standard for data exchange in the world wide web (WWW). The positive benefits of data exchangeability to support system and software heterogeneity on application level and easy WWW integration make XML an ideal data format for many other application and network scenarios like wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Moreover, the usage of XML encourages using standardized techniques like SOAP to adapt the service-oriented paradigm to sensor network engineering. Nevertheless, integrating XML usage in WSN data management is limited by the low hardware resources that require efficient XML data management strategies suitable to bridge the general resource gap. The purpose of this paper is to present two separate strategies on integrating XML data management in WSNs. Design/methodology/approach: The paper presents two separate strategies on integrating XML data management in WSNs that have been implemented and are running on today's sensor node platforms. The paper shows how XML data can be processed and how XPath queries can be evaluated dynamically. In an extended evaluation, the performance of both strategies concerning the memory and energy efficiency are compared and both solutions are shown to have application domains fully applicable on today's sensor node products. Findings: This work shows that dynamic XML data management and query evaluation is possible on sensor nodes with strict limitations in terms of memory, processing power and energy supply. Originality/value: The paper presents an optimized stream-based XML compression technique and shows how XML queries can be evaluated on compressed XML bit streams using generic pushdown automata. To the best of the authors' knowledge, this is the first complete approach on integrating dynamic XML data management into WSNs.

Original languageEnglish
Article number1896146
JournalInternational Journal of Web Information Systems
Volume6
Issue number4
Pages (from-to)319-358
Number of pages40
ISSN1744-0084
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 01.12.2010

Research Areas and Centers

  • Research Area: Intelligent Systems
  • Centers: Center for Artificial Intelligence Luebeck (ZKIL)

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