As sensor network deployments begin to grow there emerges an increasing need to overcome the obstacles of connecting and sharing heterogeneous sensor resources. Common data operations and transformations exist in deployment scenarios which can be encapsulated into a layer of software services that hide the complexity of the underlying infrastructure from the application developer.
The NICTA Open SensorWeb Architecture (NOSA) project is developing a complete standards compliant platform and middleware for integration of sensor networks with emerging distributed computing platforms.
NOSA is a built upon the Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) standard defined by the Open GIS Consortium (OGC), which is composed of a set of specifications, including SensorML, Observation & Measurement, Sensor Collection Service, Sensor Planning Service and Web Notification Service. It presents a reusable, scalable, extensible, and interoperable service oriented Sensor Web architecture that (i) conforms to the SWE standard; (ii) integrates Sensor Web with Grid Computing and (iii) provides middleware support for Sensor Webs.
Examples of the types of services being developed in NOSA include:
- Sensor notification, collection and observation,
- Data collection, aggregation and archiving,
- Sensor coordination and data processing,
- Faulty sensor data correction & management, and
- Sensor configuration and directory services.
NOSA Project Publications
X. Chu, R. Buyya. "Service Oriented Sensor Web". In Sensor Network and Configuration:
Fundamentals, Standards, Platforms, and Applications, N. P. Mahalik (ed),
pp.51-74, Springer-Verlag, ISBN: 978-3-540-37364-3, Germany, Jan. 2007.
C. Loo, M. Ng, C. Leckie, M. Palaniswami. "Intrusion Detection for Routing Attacks
in Sensor Networks". In International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks,
vol. 2, no. 4, October-December 2006, pp. 313-332, ISSN 1550-1329.
S. Rajasegarar, C. Leckie, M. Palaniswami, J. Bezdek. "Quarter Sphere Based
Distributed Anomaly Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks." In Proceedings of the
2007 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2007), Glasgow, U.K.,
24-27 June 2007.
H. Xie, E. Tanin, L. Kulik. "Distributed Histograms for Processing Aggregate Data
from Moving Objects". In Proceedings of 8th International Conference on
Mobile Data Management - MDM, 7-11 May 2007, Mannheim, Germany.
J. Huang, A. Pearce. "Collaborative inductive logic programming for path planning".
In Proceedings of the Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
(IJCAI-07), volume 1, Hyderabad, India, pp. 1327-1332, 2007.
X. Chu, T. Kobialka, B. Durnota, and R. Buyya. "Open Sensor Web Architecture:
Core Services". In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Intelligent
Sensing and Information Processing (ICISIP 2006, IEEE Press, Piscataway,
New Jersey, USA, ISBN 1-4244-0611-0) pp. 98-103, Dec. 15-18, 2006, Bangalore, India.
J. Huang, A. Pearce. "Toward Inductive Logic Programming for
Collaborative Problem Solving". In Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM
International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'06), IEEE
Computer Society, 2006, pp. 284-290.
J. Chan J. Bailey, C. Leckie. "Discovering and Summarising Regions of
Correlated Spatio-Temporal Change in Evolving Graphs". In Proceedings of the
1st International Workshop on Spatial and Spatio-temporal Data Mining (SSTDM).
Held in conjunction with ICDM 2006, December 2006, Hong Kong, pages 361-365.
P. Hebden, A. Pearce. "Data-Centric Routing using Bloom Filters in
Wireless Sensor Networks". In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference
on Intelligent Sensing and Information Processing (ICISIP),
December 2006, Bangalore, India, p. 72-78.
P. Hebden, A. Pearce. "Distributed Asynchronous Clustering for Self-Organisation
of Wireless Sensor Networks". In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on
Intelligent Sensing and Information Processing (ICISIP), December 2006, Bangalore,
India, pp. 37-42.
W. Sharif, C. Leckie. "New Variants of Wormhole Attacks for Sensor Networks".
In Proceedings of the Australian Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference,
December 2006, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 26-30.
M. Umer, L. Kulik, E. Tanin. "A Location Based Aggregation Algorithm for
Selective Aggregate Queries in Sensor Networks". In Proceedings of the
2nd International Conference on Geosensor Networks (GSN'06), Boston, USA, October 2006.
J. Huang, A. Pearce. "Distributed Interactive Learning in Multi-Agent Systems".
In Proceedings of the Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2006,
AAAI Press. Boston, Massachusetts, July 2006, pp. 666-671.
P. Hebden, A. Pearce. "Bloom filters for data aggregation and discovery: a hierarchical
clustering approach". In Proceedings of Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and
Information Processing Conference (ISSNIP), IEEE Computer Society Press,
Melbourne, Australia, December 2005, pp 175—180.
For more information, please contact the project leader Dr Chris Leckie