Enabling effective programming and flexible management of efficient body sensor network applications

IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 115-133

  Fortino, Giancarlo ^a   Giannantonio, Roberta ^b   Gravina, Raffaele ^a   Kuryloski, Philip ^c   Jafari, Roozbeh ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b TELECOM ITALIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

Design methods; Human centered applications; Sensor programming frameworks; Signal processing in node environment (SPINE); Wireless body sensor networks (BSNs)

Indexed keywords

DESIGN METHOD; DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCES; DOMAIN-SPECIFIC FRAMEWORKS; OPEN-SOURCE PROGRAMMING; PROGRAMMING COMPLEXITY; SENSOR PROGRAMMING; SOFTWARE ABSTRACTIONS; WIRELESS BODY SENSOR NETWORKS;

ABSTRACTING; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; HARDWARE; MIDDLEWARE; SENSORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

BODY SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 84881299497     PISSN: 21682291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCC.2012.2215852     Document Type: Article

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