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μDDS: A Middleware for Real-time Wireless Embedded Systems

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A Real-Time Wireless Distributed Embedded System (RTWDES) is formed by a large quantity of small devices with certain computing power, wireless communication and sensing/actuators capabilities. These types of networks have become popular as they have been developed for applications which can carry out a vast quantity of tasks, including home and building monitoring, object tracking, precision agriculture, military applications, disaster recovery, industry applications, among others. For this type of applications a middleware is used in software systems to bridge the gap between the application and the underlying operating system and networks. As a result, a middleware system can facilitate the development of applications and is designed to provide common services to the applications. The development of a middleware for sensor networks presents several challenges due to the limited computational resources and energy of the different nodes. This work is related with the design, implementation and test of a micro middleware for RTWDES; the proposal incorporates characteristics of a message oriented middleware thus allowing the applications to communicate by employing the publish/subscribe model. Experimental evaluation shows that the proposed middleware provides a stable and timely service to support different Quality of Service (QoS) levels.

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  1. Faculty of Mechanical and Electrical Enigineering, University of Colima, Colima, Mexico

    Apolinar González, W. Mata & M. Chávez

  2. CICESE Research Center., Ensenada, B.C., Mexico

    L. Villaseñor

  3. Faculty of Telematics, University of Colima, Colima, Mexico

    R. Aquino

  4. Polytechnic University of Valence, Valencia, Spain

    Jose Simo & A. Crespo

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González, A., Mata, W., Villaseñor, L. et al. μDDS: A Middleware for Real-time Wireless Embedded Systems. J Intell Robot Syst 64, 489–503 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10846-011-9550-z

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