A Situation Detection Mechanism for Pervasive Computing Infrastructures

Pervasive computing infrastructures are highly
dynamic and constant to continuous changes. Situation
awareness in pervasive computing infrastructures involves the
detection of situations requiring some kind of infrastructure
adaptation or re-configuration. To realise situation awareness,
the paper proposes an approach that is based on complex event
processing. The associated software can process and analyse data
streams generated both by the pervasive infrastructure as well as
applications and services deployed on it. Moreover, the software
is modular and can be easily deployed as a Docker container or a
set of Docker containers. The software is independent of CEP
libraries and we have shown that it can operate with both the
Siddhi and Drools complex event processing libraries.