Policy enabled interconnection of sensor networks using a message queue infrastructure

Abstract

A light-weight messaging fabric can be used to interconnect several different types of sensors together in a light-weight manner using existing products. However, existing commercial solutions for interconnecting sensors do not provide an easy method to enforce communication flow policies among several different methods, nor do they provide an easy interface for auto-configuration of sensor flows to enforce messaging policies. In this paper, we describe an approach that can add the features of self-configuration and policy based security controls to a sensor network built atop a message queue infrastructure. We describe the architecture for providing policy control and self-configuration network management functions to the sensor messaging fabric.