A survey on developing publish/subscribe middleware over wireless sensor/actuator networks

• Published in: Wireless networks Vol. 22; no. 6; pp. 2049 - 2070
• Main Authors: Sheltami, Tarek R., Al-Roubaiey, Anas A., Mahmoud, Ashraf S. Hasan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.08.2016; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Actuators; Algorithms; Automation; Classification; Communication; Communications Engineering; Computer Communication Networks; Decision making; Decoupling; Electrical Engineering; Engineering; Internet of Things; IT in Business; Middleware; Networks; Quality of service; R&D; Remote sensors; Research & development; Sensors; Studies; Wireless networks; WSAN; WSN; Publish/subscribe; Distributed systems; Real-time
• ISSN: 1022-0038; 1572-8196
• DOI: 10.1007/s11276-015-1075-0

Publish/subscribe (Pub/Sub) interaction paradigm is receiving more attention in commercial and academic research nowadays. It is an effective interaction scheme for large-scale distributed systems due to its ability of decoupling communicating entities in time, space, and synchronization. The decoupling properties are well-suited for Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) applications because of their special characteristics such as data-centricity, dynamicity, and many-to-many communications. Many studies have been conducted to adapt Pub/Sub communication model to WSN. In this paper, we review the Pub/Sub interaction paradigm in the context of WSN. Moreover, we classify, analyze and synthesize different Pub/Sub based solutions proposed recently for WSN and discuss the open problems and new research directions in this area. Also, we propose a new reference model for pub/sub middleware in wireless sensor and actuator networks. To the best of our knowledge this is the first survey on this specific subject.