Migrating operator placement for compositional stream graphs
Vasvi Kakkad, Andrew E. Santosa, Bernhard J. Scholz · 2012
Wireless sensor networks (WSN) and mobile clouds are composed of sensor nodes that have limited energy resources. For wireless sensor networks, query processing is the state-of-the-art for data gathering and processing applications to avoid low-level programming. The stream programming model has been widely used to represent queries as an information flow from the sensor nodes to the base station. The model describes queries as stream graphs consisting of operators that process data and channels that connect operators. Operators are deployed in the network to reduce the communication overhead and hence energy. The modification of WSN queries at runtime is of key importance due to changes in the environment and the network energy levels, resulting in the migration of operators between the network nodes.