State of the art in wireless sensor networks operating systems: A survey

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6485 LNCS, Issue , 2010, Pages 616-631

  Farooq, Muhammad Omer ^a   Aziz, Sadia ^b   Dogar, Abdul Basit ^c  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^b CENTER FOR ADVANCED STUDIES IN ENGINEERING   (Pakistan)

^c VIRTUAL UNIVERSITY OF PAKISTAN   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Embedded Operating Systems; Operating System (OS); Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN)

Indexed keywords

BATTERY POWER; COMMUNICATION PROTOCOLS; DYNAMIC NETWORK; EMBEDDED OPERATING SYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; MEMORY MANAGEMENT; NETWORK DESIGNER; NON REAL TIME; ON CURRENTS; OPERATING SYSTEMS; PROS AND CONS; REAL TIME; RESOURCE-CONSTRAINT DEVICES; STATE OF THE ART; THREADING MODEL; WIRELESS SENSOR; OPERATING SYSTEM (OS); WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK (WSNS);

COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; DESIGN; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SCHEDULING; SENSOR NETWORKS; SURVEYS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 78651060086     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-17569-5_61     Document Type: Conference Paper

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