Paper Info
Title
Generating a Tailored Middleware for Wireless Sensor Network Applications
Abstract
Wireless sensor networks are characterized by resource constraints. Therefore, today's sensor networks are implemented from scratch emphasizing code efficiency. This development strategy leads to relatively complex code and bad code reusability in further projects. To improve reusability and development efficiency, it is state-of-the-art in the development of standard information systems to divide applications into at least two parts, the application-logic, providing all the functions to solve a given problem and a reusable distributed middleware providing a container for the application. After developing the middleware once, the developer of further projects need to focus only on the application-logic. Thereby, the development times can be reduced considerably. However, a generic middleware layer replacing code implemented from scratch is not practicable in sensor networks due to resource constraints. Within this paper, we will present a model-driven approach in combination with a template-based code generator to get the best of both development strategies. This approach enables us to generate a tailored middleware for our application including interface-stubs for the application-logic. In contrast to other component-based approaches, the templates can be adopted easily to fulfill specific platform needs. We will demonstrate the practicability of this approach by implementing the control of a model railway.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1109/SUTC.2008.57
SUTC
Keywords
Field
DocType
tailored middleware,template-based code generator,bad code reusability,generic middleware layer,code efficiency,wireless sensor network applications,sensor network,development time,complex code,resource constraint,development strategy,development efficiency,code generation,sensor networks,information system,application software,code generator,computer networks,middleware,wireless sensor networks,information systems,pervasive computing,hardware,wireless sensor network
Information system,Middleware,Computer science,Computer network,Real-time computing,Ubiquitous computing,Application software,Distributed computing,Middleware (distributed applications),Code generation,Wireless sensor network,Reusability,Embedded system
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
13
1.09
8
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Christian Buckl133938.31
Stephan Sommer2427.61
Andreas Scholz310711.42
Alois Knoll Knoll41700271.32
Alfons Kemper53519769.50