COUGAR: The Network is the Database

Summary: COUGAR places a distributed data management layer on sensor nodes, unifying sensing, computation, and query processing. In-network processing reduces communication, avoids central data stores, and scales with increasing sensor interconnectivity while enabling on-the-fly behavior. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3458
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2002
Pagerank: -
Overall Rank: 13,961 | 4.22%
DOI: 10.1145/564691.564775

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Authors

1. Wai Fu Fung (Cornell University)
2. David Sun (Cornell University)
3. Johannes Gehrke (Cornell University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{fung_sigmod02,
        title = {{COUGAR: The Network is the Database}},
        author = {Fung, Wai Fu and Sun, David and Gehrke, Johannes},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '02},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/564691.564775},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/564691.564775},
        year = {2002}
}

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