Emstar: A software environment for developing and deploying heterogeneous sensor-actuator networks

ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Girod, Lewis ^a   Ramanathan, Nithya ^b   Elson, Jeremy ^c   Stathopoulos, Thanos ^b   Lukac, Martin ^b   Estrin, Deborah ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Emstar; Real code simulation; Sensor networks; TinyOS

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; FAULT TOLERANCE; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SERVERS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EMSTAR; REAL CODE SIMULATION; TINYOS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 34548450188     PISSN: 15504859     EISSN: 15504867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1267060.1267061     Document Type: Article

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