Title :
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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/WAINA.2009.195
