A Decentralized Content-based Aggregation Service for Pervasive Environments

This paper presents a content-based decentralized information aggregation service for pervasive environments. The service provides a uniform query interface where aggregation queries are specified using content descriptors in the form of keywords, partial keywords, wildcards and ranges. The service guarantees that all data that matches a complex/range query was located and aggregated in an efficient and scalable way. The design of the aggregation service uses a decentralized aggregation trie along with a distributed and decentralized query engine. The deployment and experimental evaluation of the aggregation service are also presented. Evaluations include simulations as well as experiments using deployments on local-area network at Rutgers and wide-area PlanetLab testbed