Distributing Queries over Low-Power Wireless Sensor Networks

Summary: Distributes declarative queries over low-power sensor motes, enabling in-network streaming and continuous monitoring. Uses Telegraph to parse, distribute, and evaluate aggregates at the sensors, achieving major power/bandwidth savings by pushing computation into the network. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3459
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2002
Pagerank: 8.1554268e-05
Overall Rank: 2,760 | 81.07%
DOI: 10.1145/564691.564776

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Authors

1. Samuel Madden (University of California Berkeley)
2. Joseph M. Hellerstein (University of California Berkeley)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{madden_sigmod02,
        title = {{Distributing Queries over Low-Power Wireless Sensor Networks}},
        author = {Madden, Samuel and Hellerstein, Joseph M.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '02},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/564691.564776},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/564691.564776},
        year = {2002}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
550	Distributed Top-K Monitoring	2003	SIGMOD	0.0001663758
722	Adaptive Filters for Continuous Queries over Distributed Data Streams	2003	SIGMOD	0.00014627248
765	Query Processing for Sensor Networks	2003	CIDR	0.00014217472
12,820	Memory Requirements for Query Execution in Highly Constrained Devices	2003	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank

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