A policy-based coordination architecture for distributed complex event processing in the internet of things: doctoral symposium

Abstract

The dissemination of powered communication devices has instigated a new technological paradigm called Internet of Things (IoT). These devices are present in our life, capturing information about people's routines and using them as data stream to support many decision-making processes. Nevertheless, many IoT applications take into consideration only the information related to their local context and the data analysis is done by a cloud server, increasing the feedback information latency to the data consumers and reducing the information quality. This work adopts the use of a distributed complex event processing (CEP) to analyse data considering all the IoT devices to execute data processing and distribution through a policy-based coordination architecture, building a μDCEP, called GiTo. The policies define rules for coordination processing which are monitored through the distributed CEP engine. This approach focus on information quality improvement and time reduction between data generation and information acquired by the consumers.