A Dynamic Size Distributed Program Image Cache for Wireless Sensor Networks

Author

Ellul, Joshua ; Martinez, Kirk ; De Roure, D.

Author_Institution

Electron. & Comput. Sci. Dept., Univ. of Southampton, Southampton

fYear

2009

fDate

26-29 May 2009

Firstpage

810

Lastpage

814

Abstract

Reprogramming node software over-the-air is an essential requirement in many wireless sensor network applications due to the inaccessibility of the deployed sensor nodes. Transmitting whole software images consumes a high amount of energy in proportion to updates, especially when they are small in size. Incremental updates have addressed this; however introduce the potential of a sensor node becoming out of sync when it misses an update. In this paper we present a dynamic size distributed program image cache that provides increased efficiency in reprogramming out of sync nodes and multi-purpose wireless sensor networks.

Keywords

distributed programming; telecommunication computing; wireless sensor networks; dynamic size distributed program; image cache; reprogramming node software; wireless sensor network; Application software; Computer networks; Image sensors; Kirk field collapse effect; Military computing; Monitoring; Prototypes; Software debugging; Software prototyping; Wireless sensor networks; cache; reprogramming; sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops, 2009. WAINA '09. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bradford

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3999-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-3639-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WAINA.2009.195

Filename

5136749