Mobile CEP in real-time big data processing: challenges and opportunities

Abstract

The expansion of the mobile applications in various domains has opened the issue of the optimal usage of the limited resources (e.g. data storage capacity and processing power). This is especially important for the so-called data-intensive applications, which deal with huge amount of mobile data, like in the case of m-Health (i.e. wearable sensing). Many of these applications are oriented towards detecting of particular real-time situations, which brings them to the domain of Event Processing. However, we argue that real-time, big data driven applications require a novel infrastructure for distributed complex event processing that is only partially executed on the mobile devices. This tutorial paper presents a foundation for an efficient development of such mobile applications, by introducing a mobile-driven distributed CEP infrastructure. We present the technical details of the infrastructure and its initial implementation.