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Software Issues in Wireless Sensor Networks

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As is the case with all other computing devices, sensor nodes too have to be programmed in order to be able to do something useful. Programming sensor nodes falls somewhere between programming desktop computers and small embedded devices: There is only conceptual similarity between programming a home computer with 2 GHz CPU and gigabytes of RAM and storage, and programming a tiny device with just a dozen kilobytes of RAM and an 8-bit processor running on just a few kilohertz. Still, programming sensor networks is not all that similar to embedded devices either: Programming embedded systems typically amounts to writing an assembly program and loading it into programmable ROM of the embedded device, while a sensor node usually has an operating system (such as TinyOS or ConTiki) which provides support for basic I/O operations, operation of the radio transceiver, and so on (Fig. 3.1).

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  1. School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

    Aleksandar Crnjin

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  1. , Faculty of EE and IT, Ss. Cyril and Methodius Univ. of Skopje, Rudjer Boskovic bb, Skopje, 1000, Macedonia

    Liljana Gavrilovska

  2. Ericsson Ireland Research Centre, Ericsson Software Campus, Athlone, 0, Ireland

    Srdjan Krco

  3. , Department of Computer Engineering, University of Belgrade, Bulevar Kralja Aleksandra 73, Belgrade, 11000, Serbia

    Veljko Milutinovic

  4. , School of IT and Engineering, University of Ottawa, King Edward Ave. 800, Ottawa, K1N 6N5, Ontario, Canada

    Ivan Stojmenovic

  5. , Department of Communication Systems, Jožef Stefan Institute, Jamova 39, Ljubljana, 1000, Slovenia

    Roman Trobec

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Crnjin, A. (2011). Software Issues in Wireless Sensor Networks. In: Gavrilovska, L., Krco, S., Milutinovic, V., Stojmenovic, I., Trobec, R. (eds) Application and Multidisciplinary Aspects of Wireless Sensor Networks. Computer Communications and Networks. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84996-510-1_3

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