A syndication-based messaging protocol for the global RFID network

This Master of Engineering thesis describes the design and implementation of a syndication based messaging protocol for the global RFID network. The motivation behind the design is to develop a scalable model that can be applied to "Internet of Things" technologies, which are used to encompass the large data volume of physical objects in the world. In striving to achieve this, the underlying publish/subscribe system implementation can be applied to large-scale communication and information networks. The messaging protocol presented is text-based; this approach offers a human-understandable, user-friendly protocol. Similar to RSS version 2.0, the format of the message conforms to existing XML specifications, but also adopts a structure that represents the RFID data organization more clearly. As an example method, Windows Forms applications were created to provide a Graphical User Interface (GUI) component for visualizing the publish/subscribe messaging model. The design implements a lightweight messaging protocol that is both scalable to model large-scale networks and extensible to allow aggregation of content across multiple data sources.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2008

Author dc:creator

• Sun, Miao, M. Eng. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• John R. Williams and Abel Sanchez.

• Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

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• M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/46518

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/46518