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UbiCore : An Effective XML-based RFID Middleware System  

Lee, Hun-Soon (한국전자통신연구원 인터넷서버그룹)
Choi, Hyun-Hwa (한국전자통신연구원 인터넷서버그룹)
Kim, Byoung-Seob (한국전자통신연구원 인터넷서버그룹)
Lee, Myung-Cheol (한국전자통신연구원 인터넷서버그룹)
Park, Jae-Hong (한국전자통신연구원 인터넷서버그룹)
Lee, Mi-Young (한국전자통신연구원 인터넷서버그룹)
Kim, Myung-Joon (한국전자통신연구원 인터넷서버그룹)
Jin, Sung-Il (충남대학교 전기정보통신공학부)
Abstract
Owing to the proliferation of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technologies which is being watched as a core technology of ubiquitous computing, applications which offer convenience to people using RFID technologies are more and more increased. To easily develop these applications, a middleware system which acts as a bridge between RFID hardware and application is essential. In this paper, we propose a novel XML-based RFID middleware system called UbiCore (Ubiquitous Core). UbiCore has following features: First, UbiCore employs its own query language called XQueryStream (XQuery for Stream Data) which is originated from XQuery. Second, UbiCore has the preprocessing phase called pre-filtering prior to query evaluation and reuses the intermediate result of previous evaluation to speed up the processing of RFID tag data stream. Third, UbiCore supports query on both continuously generated stream data and archived historical data. And last, UbiCore offers a distinct markup language called Context-driven Service Markup Language (CSML) to easily specify the linking information between context and service.
Keywords
RFID middleware; XML data steam; continuous query; context-driven service; prefiltering; trigger; historical data query; ALE;
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