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

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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.

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Sheltami, T.R., Al-Roubaiey, A.A. & Mahmoud, A.S.H. A survey on developing publish/subscribe middleware over wireless sensor/actuator networks. Wireless Netw 22, 2049–2070 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11276-015-1075-0

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