High-Level Application Development is Realistic for Wireless Sensor Networks

—Programming Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) applications is known to be a difficult task. Part of the problem is that the resource limitations of typical WSN nodes force programmers to use relatively low-level techniques to deal with the logical concurrency and asynchronous event handling inherent in these applications. In addition, existing general-purpose, nodelevel programming tools only support the networked nature of WSN applications in a limited way and result in application code that is hardly portable across different software platforms. All of this makes programming a single device a tedious and error-prone task. To address these issues we propose a high-level programming model that allows programmers to express applications as hierarchical state machines and to handle events and application concurrency in a way similar to imperative synchronous languages. Our program execution model is based on static scheduling what allows for standalone application analysis and testing. F...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: SECON
• Authors: Marcin Karpinski, Vinny Cahill
• Keywords: SECON 2007, Typical Wsn Nodes, Wireless Sensor Network, WSN Applications