Towards Safe Programming of Wireless Sensor Networks

Sensor networks are rather challenging to deploy, program, and debug. Current programming languages for these platforms suffer from a significant semantic gap between their specifications and underlying implementations. This fact precludes the development of (type-)safe applications, which would pot...

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Main Author: Francisco Martins (author)
Other Authors: Luís Lopes (author), João Barros (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2010
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Online Access:https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/53026
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio-aberto.up.pt:10216/53026
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Summary:Sensor networks are rather challenging to deploy, program, and debug. Current programming languages for these platforms suffer from a significant semantic gap between their specifications and underlying implementations. This fact precludes the development of (type-)safe applications, which would potentially simplify the task of programming and debugging deployed networks. In this paper we define a core calculus for programming sensor networks and propose to use it as an assembly language for developing type-safe, high-level programming languages.