The Prototype of the Massive Events Streams Service Architecture and its Application

This paper describes the prototype of the Massive Events Streams Service Architecture (MESSA), which is used as a framework of various RFID-enabled application systems. The MESSA captures events from a number of RFID readers, refines the events, processes the continuous queries, and delivers the event query results to the applications systems. In addition, the MESSA conforms to the ALE 1.0 interfaces from the EPCglobal in order to make the MESSA widely applicable to general events handling applications. The underlying data manipulation schemes of the MESSA support the continuous queries to manage the events streams from external data sources during specified periods of time. The main contribution of this research lies in its seamless integration of the event handling processes within a unified framework, MESSA, and realization of air cargo handling business logics into the RFID-enabled air cargo management system based on the MESSA.