Paper Info
Title
Increasing the reliability of wireless sensor networks with a distributed testing framework
Abstract
Designing Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) has proven to be a slow, tedious and error-prone process due to the inherent intricacies of designing a distributed, wireless, and embedded system. A systematic design approach accompanied by a test methodology supports the development of WSN software conforming to all design requirements including robustness and reliability. In this paper, we propose the fundamentals of such a test methodology. We present essential features of a framework for testing a broad range of WSN applications. We demonstrate with a case study that our test methodology is a feasible approach by integrating a number of existing design-tools for the TinyOS operating system. While we target TinyOS in the case study the proposed test methodology is general and not tailored to a specific WSN platform or operating system.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1145/1278972.1278996
EmNets
Keywords
Field
DocType
wsn software,design requirement,wireless sensor network,tinyos operating system,specific wsn platform,test methodology,feasible approach,wsn application,case study,embedded system,proposed test methodology,testing,unit testing,reliability,wireless sensor networks
Key distribution in wireless sensor networks,Test method,Wireless,Computer science,Distributed testing,Robustness (computer science),nesC,Software,Wireless sensor network,Embedded system
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
10
0.73
12
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Matthias Woehrle119421.93
Christian Plessl229735.98
Jan Beutel318619.91
Lothar Thiele414025957.82