Document Type

Conference Paper

Publication Date

8-2004

Publication Title

First Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking and Services (Mobiquitous)

Department

Department of Computer Science

Abstract

In this paper we motivate a Context Fusion Network (CFN), an infrastructure model that allows context-aware applications to select distributed data sources and compose them with customized data-fusion operators into a directed acyclic information fusion graph. Such a graph represents how an application computes high-level understandings of its execution context from low-level sensory data. Multiple graphs by different applications inter-connect with each other to form a global graph. A key advantage of a CFN is re-usability, both at code-level and instance-level, facilitated by operator composition. We designed and implemented a distributed CFN system, Solar, which maps the logical operator graph representation onto a set of overlay hosts. In particular, Solar meets the challenges inherent to heterogeneous and volatile ubicomp environments. By abstracting most complexities into the infrastructure, we believe Solar facilitates both the development and deployment of context-aware applications. We present the operator composition model, basic services of the Solar overlay network, and programming support for the developers. We also discuss some applications built with Solar and the lessons we learned from our experience.

DOI

10.1109/MOBIQ.2004.1331731

Original Citation

Guanling Chen, Ming Li, and David Kotz. Design and implementation of a large-scale context fusion network. In First Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking and Services (Mobiquitous), August 2004. 10.1109/MOBIQ.2004.1331731

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