A comprehensive compiler-assisted thread abstraction for resource-constrained systems

IPSN 2013 - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, Part of CPSWeek 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 167-177

  Bernauer, Alexander ^a   Römer, Kay ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Compiler; Threads; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

COMPILER; COMPILER-ASSISTED; ERROR PRONES; EVENT-BASED; HARDWARE CONSTRAINTS; PROGRAMMING PARADIGMS; SOFTWARE COMPLEXITY; THREADS;

DATA PROCESSING; HARDWARE; SEMANTICS; SENSOR NODES; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

ABSTRACTING;

EID: 84876746097     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2461381.2461403     Document Type: Conference Paper

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