Programming wireless sensor networks: Fundamental concepts and state of the art

ACM Computing Surveys

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Mottola, Luca ^a,b   Picco, Gian Pietro ^b  

^a SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Middleware; Networked embedded systems; Programming abstractions; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; TAXONOMIES; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

ADOPTION OF WIRELESS; APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT; APPLICATIONS DOMAINS; FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS; LOW-COSTS; MONITORING AND CONTROL; NETWORKED EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; PROGRAMMING ABSTRACTIONS; STATE OF THE ART;

MIDDLEWARE;

EID: 79955656646     PISSN: 03600300     EISSN: 15577341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1922649.1922656     Document Type: Review

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