TRANSACT A Transactional Framework for Programming Wireless Sensor/Actor Networks

Effectively managing concurrent execution is one of the biggest challenges for future wireless sensor/actor networks (WSANs): For safety reasons concurrency needs to be tamed to prevent unintentional nondeterministic executions, on the other hand, for real-time guarantees concurrency needs to be boo...

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Published in:Information Processing in Sensor Networks; Proceedings: International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, 2008: St. Louis, MO pp. 295 - 306
Main Authors: Demirbas, Murat, Soysal, Onur, Hussain, Muzammil
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC, USA IEEE Computer Society 22.04.2008
IEEE
Series:ACM Conferences
Subjects:
Application software
Broadcasting
Concurrent computing
Control systems
Distributed databases
Hardware > Communication hardware, interfaces and storage > Signal processing systems
Networks > Network types > Mobile networks
Networks > Network types > Wireless access networks
Process control
Resource management
Robot kinematics
Robotic assembly
Software and its engineering > Software notations and tools
Software and its engineering > Software notations and tools > General programming languages > Language features > Frameworks
Wireless sensor networks
ISBN:9780769531571, 0769531571
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Summary:Effectively managing concurrent execution is one of the biggest challenges for future wireless sensor/actor networks (WSANs): For safety reasons concurrency needs to be tamed to prevent unintentional nondeterministic executions, on the other hand, for real-time guarantees concurrency needs to be boosted to achieve timeliness. We propose a transactional, optimistic concurrency control framework for WSANs that enables understanding of a system execution as a single thread of control, while permitting the deployment of actual execution over multiple threads distributed onseveral nodes. By exploiting the atomicity and broadcast propertiesof singlehop wireless communication, we provide a lightweightimplementation of our transactional framework on the motes platform.
ISBN:9780769531571
0769531571
DOI:10.1109/IPSN.2008.44