Declarative tracepoints: A programmable and application independent debugging system for wireless sensor networks

SenSys'08 - Proceedings of the 6th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 85-98

  Cao, Qing ^a   Abdelzaher, Tarek ^a   Stankovic, John ^b   Whitehouse, Kamin ^b   Luo, Liqian ^c  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b University of Virginia   (United States)

^c MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

declarative tracepoints; embedded debugging; wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

CORE FUNCTIONALITY; DEBUGGING PROCESS; DEBUGGING SYSTEMS; DECLARATIVE TRACEPOINTS; ERROR PRONES; PROGRAM STATE; RUNTIMES; SENSOR NETWORK APPLICATIONS; SOURCE CODES; SYSTEM STATE;

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

PROGRAM DEBUGGING;

EID: 84866482934     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1460412.1460422     Document Type: Conference Paper

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