A Component Framework for Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks

Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks (WSANs) constitute an emerging and pervasive technology that is attracting increased interest for a wide range of applications. WSANs have two major requirements: coordination mechanisms for both sensor-actor and actor-actor interactions, and real-time communication to perform correct and timely actions. Additionally, the development of WSAN applications is notoriously difficult, due to the extreme resource limitations of nodes. This paper introduces a framework to facilitate the task of the application programmer taking into account these special characteristics of WSANs. We propose a real-time component model using light-weight components. In addition, a high-level coordination model based on tuple channels is integrated into the k including high-level constructs that abstract the details of communication and facilitate the datacentric behavior of sensor queries.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: ETFA
• Authors: Manuel Díaz, Daniel Garrido, Luis Llopis, Bartolomé Rubio, José M. Troya
• Keywords: Coordination Mechanisms, ETFA 2006, Extreme Resource Limitations, Real-time Component Model