Implementing a Sensor Database System using a Generic Data Dissemination Mechanism Omprakash Gnawali, Ramesh Govindan, and John Heidemann   View Paper (PDF)   Return to March 2005, In-Network Query Processing, Volume 28, Number 1 Abstract ). Such a decoupled design is desirable, since it allows us to significantly re-use functionality and promotes overall system robustness. In conducting this exercise, we found that TinyDB influenced the re-design of Diffusion in several important ways. ©2006 Association for Computing Machinery