A Component-Based Model and Language for Wireless Sensor Network Applications

Wireless sensor networks are often used by experts in many different fields to gather data pertinent to their work. Although their expertise may not include software engineering, these users are expected to produce low-level software for a concurrent, real-time and resource-constrained computing environment. In this paper, we introduce a component-based model for wireless sensor network applications and a language, Insense, for supporting the model. An application is modelled as a composition of interacting components and the application model is preserved in the Insense implementation where active components communicate via typed channels. The primary design criteria for include: to abstract over low-level concerns for ease of programming; to permit worst-case space and time usage of programs to be determinable; to support the fractal composition of components whilst eliminating implicit dependencies between them; and, to facilitate the construction of low footprint programs suitable...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: COMPSAC
• Authors: Alan Dearle, Dharini Balasubramaniam, Jonathan Lewis, Ronald Morrison
• Keywords: COMPSAC 2008, Resource-constrained Computing Environment, Sensor Network Applications, Software Engineering, Wireless Sensor Network