@inproceedings{chen04:scaling,
   author = {Annie Chen and Navendu Jain and Tadeusz Pietraszek and
   Sean Rooney and Paolo Scotton},
   title = {Scaling Real-Time Telematics Applications using
   Programmable Middleboxes: A Case Study in Traffic Prediction},
   booktitle = {{Proceedings of 2004 1st IEEE Consumer Communication
   and Networking Conference}},
   year = 2004,
   pages = {388--393},
   address = {Las Vegas, NV},
   abstract = {
		Floating Car Data (FCD), i.e.~traffic and in-car data
		collected and transmitted by moving cars, is an
		emerging telematics application providing a range of
		networked services to the road users. FCD is an
		example of a large sensor network, whose complexity
		increases with the number of session participants. Our
		work is examining how deploying application-specific
		functions in the network can help in scaling such
		systems.

		We have chosen to configure these functions on a
		dedicated device that is commonly called a
		middlebox. These middleboxes use programmable network
		processors in order to attain the required processing
		and forwarding speeds, while communicating with each
		other and back-end server using standard middleware
		components. We present our experience in using such a
		programmable middlebox in the scaling of a large
		telematics service, explaining how the middlebox fits
		into the end-to-end application.
		},
   url = {},
   category = {fcd, telematics, sensor networks, intelligent vehicles, 
traffic prediction, scalability, middleboxes},
}