Programming Sensor Networks with State-Centric Services

  • Andreas Lachenmann ,
  • Ulrich Mueller ,
  • Robert Sugar ,
  • Louis Latour ,
  • Matthias Neugebauer ,
  • Alain Gefflaut

Proc. of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS '10) |

Published by Springer Verlag

Best paper award of the Systems and Applications Track!

Publication

This paper presents the uDSSP (“micro DSSP”) programming model which simplifies the development of distributed sensor network applications that make use of complex in-network processing. Using uDSSP, an application is composed of state-centric services. These services interact by accessing the state of other services or by subscribing to changes of that state. uDSSP sup-ports heterogeneous networks that consist of PCs, resource-rich sensor nodes, and resource-limited nodes with just a few kilobytes of RAM. The evaluation uses a non-trivial application to compare it to Abstract Regions and Tenet.