I will be teaching an IP-Based WSN workshop at the 1st International UBI Summer School held May 31st-June 4th in Oulu, Finland. The deadline has just been extended to April 30th – so still time to sign up! This summer school is highly recommended for those doing MSc or Phd work related to ubiquitous networks and computing, and consists of 6 top-notch workshops. There are still a few seats left in my workshop and three others.
http://www.ubioulu.fi/en/UBI-summer-school-2010
This summer school kicks off the UBI Challenge which encourages design, implementation and deployment of novel ubiquitous applications on the city of Oulu’s outstanding display and sensor network infrastructure. This will include a city wide deployment of 6LoWPAN 2.4 GHz and Sub-GHz access points!
http://www.ubioulu.fi/en/UBI-challenge
The recent IETF in Anaheim had a great kickoff of the new Constrained RESTful Environment working group. Applying the REST architecture to extend the Web to even the most constrained nodes and networks (and making that scale to a trillion nodes) is an exciting and challenging task. We have started some interesting protocol design on the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP, pronounced “co-app”) – and it is nice to see this new transfer protocol taking shape!
Before diving into the protocol details of CoAP, I think it is important for people to explore what applying REST to constrained, autonomous embedded devices over really difficult networks really means. Lisa Dusseault, the previous IETF Apps Area Director who helped us get CoRE going, has started a brilliant series of blog entires about REST and the constrained world – keep an eye there!
- Lisa on why HTTP won’t do it
- Lisa on REST in protocols today
Recently I wrote an IEEE Communication Magazine article on Embedded Web Services, and we are working on a White Paper on the subject for the IPSO Alliance. In the mean time I’ll also be writing some blog entries on what REST means for this world.
