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Abstract
While size and complexity of sensor networks software has increased significantly in recent years, the hardware capabilities of sensor nodes have been remaining very constrained. The predominant event-based programming paradigm addresses these hardware constraints, but does not scale well with the growing software complexity, often leading to software that is hard-to-manage and error-prone. Thread abstractions could remedy this situation, but existing solutions in sensor networks either provide incomplete thread semantics or introduce a significant resource overhead. This reflects the common understanding that one has to trade expressiveness for efficiency and vice versa. Our work, however, shows that this trade-off is not inherent to resource-constrained systems. We propose a comprehensive compiler-assisted cooperative threading abstraction, where full-fledged thread-based C code is translated to efficient event-based C code that runs atop an event-based operating system such as Contiki or TinyOS. Our evaluation shows that our approach outperforms thread libraries and generates code that is almost as efficient as hand-written event-based code with overheads of 1% RAM, 2% CPU, and 3% ROM.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | IPSN' 13 |
Place of Publication | New York, NY |
Publisher | Association of Computing Machinery |
Pages | 167-178 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-1-4503-1959-1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2013 |
Event | 12th ACM/IEEE Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks: IPSN 2013 - Philadelphia, United States Duration: 8 Apr 2013 → 11 Apr 2013 |
Conference
Conference | 12th ACM/IEEE Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks |
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Country/Territory | United States |
City | Philadelphia |
Period | 8/04/13 → 11/04/13 |
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Intelligent & Networked Embedded Systems
Boano, C. A., Römer, K. U., Schuß, M., Cao, N., Saukh, O., Hofmann, R., Stocker, M., Schuh, M. P., Papst, F., Salomon, E., Brunner, H., Gallacher, M., Mohamed Hydher, M. H., Wang, D., Corti, F., Krisper, M., Basic, F. & Petrovic, K.
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