TOSSTI: Saving time and energy in TinyOS with software thread integration

Proceedings of the IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium, RTAS

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 354-363

  Purvis, Zane D ^a   Dean, Alexander G ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMBEDDED TECHNOLOGY; IDLE TIME; SOFTWARE THREAD INTEGRATION;

APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; ELECTRIC NETWORK SYNTHESIS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT;

ENERGY CONVERSION;

EID: 51249107177     PISSN: 15453421     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RTAS.2008.38     Document Type: Conference Paper

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