Operating systems for wireless sensor networks: A survey

Sensors

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 5900-5930

  Farooq, Muhammad Omer ^a   Kunz, Thomas ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Embedded operating system; Operating systems (OS); Real time operating system (RTOS); Wireless sensor network (WSN)

Indexed keywords

AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARTICLE; COMPUTER; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; COMPUTER NETWORK; COMPUTER SYSTEM; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; POWER SUPPLY; TELEMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSDUCER; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION;

COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTERS; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; TELEMETRY; TRANSDUCERS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 79959823351     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s110605900     Document Type: Article

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