A New Ontology of Resource Specification for Wireless Sensor Networks

The practical usage of ontology for resource specification is for effective resource control in wireless sensor networks. In order to support geographically and logically distinct resources to be co-scheduled and co-allocated when test beds are federated, we build a new ontology. It provides a simple schema that can be used to present a clear overview of network and the relation between sensing elements. Our ontology has been actively integrated with the common-used control framework. The ontology also provides service abstraction between service providers and users, which defines generalized resource request for users to describe the desired resources on different test beds. It has been shown to be useful for describing heterogeneous networked sensing substrate and be feasible for allocating resources across various test beds.