Many data dissemination techniques have been proposed for wireless sensor networks (WSNs) to facilitate data dissemination
and query processing. However, these techniques may not work well in a large scale sensor network where a huge amount of sensing
data is generated. In this paper, we propose an integrated distributed connected dominating set based indexing (CBI) data
dissemination scheme to support scalable handling of large amount of sensing data in large scale WSNs. Our CBI can minimize
the use of limited network and computational resources while providing timely responses to queries. Moreover, our data dissemination
framework ensures scalability and load balance as well as adaptivity in the presence of dynamic changes. Analysis and simulations
are conducted to evaluate the performance of our CBI scheme. The results show that the CBI scheme outperforms the external
storage-based scheme, local storage-based scheme and the data-centric storage-based scheme in overall performance.
Keywords Distributed indexing - Data dissemination - Connected dominating sets - Wireless sensor networks