Terra: Flexibility and safety in WSNs
Adriano Francisco Branco · 2013
My research focuses the integration of a program language with a specialized component set to minimize problems encountered when programming wireless sensor networks applications. The scarcity of resources along with the event-oriented nature of applications and the need for coordination among large numbers of nodes are the main sources of programming difficulties in this area. To investigate the suitability of my approach, I built Terra, a system that implements a programming environment based on a reactive high-level language with execution safety and using a virtual machine that integrates customized components. I describe an initial evaluation of Terra’s flexibility in adjusting the abstraction border of run-time components and the script complexity.